Brooklyn-based Dräger, the artistic banner of artist Spencer Draeger, plies his trade across the worlds of music, film and fashion. A songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist and director, Draeger distils a dystopian modern era through his music, adding a satirical and sarcastic touch to heavy themes of technology, love and societal shifts.
Signed to the Trash Casual imprint, Dräger draws inspiration from a range of musical influences, stitching together CBGB era punk, dreamy 80s synth pop and the psychedelic sound of the 90s. With a keen understanding of a generation saturated in anxiety and melancholia, Dräger employs a light touch to navigate the precipice of a new world.
His undiluted vision is clear in his approach, with all aspects of his creations, from songwriting to production, performance, mixing, mastering and even directing and editing videos executed by Draeger in his home studio in Brooklyn. The result is an immersive experience where each element aligns with his artistic ethos. “We have adapted to a voyeuristic, visual-centric lifestyle, and amidst the vanity and other byproducts of fighting for your screen time, I think to fully tell a story of a song, you must now show people what you mean with a video,” he shares.
Back in 2019 he made his entrance with his debut single “Psycho Narcissistic Paranoia” and has since dropped several singles as well as his first full-length record with the eleven track album Goths à la Discothèque in 2021. Now he brings us his last release with the brand new single titled “Brooklyn BB.”
Serving up a grooving indie pop sound, the track starts with a hazy aesthetic of lo-fi percussion shots, airy synth tones and a grooving bass line before the arrangement launches with the piquant wobble of a lead synth and rising shuffle of drums. Dräger’s rich crooning vocals glide in, floating over the smokey soundscape to cast a catchy sound of laid back stretched melodies and mellow instrumental tones.
Commenting on the single, he offers, “Brooklyn BB is my bittersweet love story about looking back on that perfect day of the one that got away. I put this video off for a while in editing because this song haunted me for the very reason I wrote it. Nostalgia is so deceptive. It’s like intoxicating love that you feel even stronger when she’s gone. To confuse loss for love…to not know the difference. To be lost in maybe an idea of someone rather than the reality and not care. There’s no logic, just the ineffable.”
With dynamic flow in his expressive vocal performance that cuts between the gentle delivery in the verses to blissful soaring moments; it’s a charming sound that sees Dräger create a delightful musical moment. Paired with the single is the self-directed music video that sees Dräger performing the song cut with shots of partner Ash Rose, a successful model with a big following.
On the music video, he says, “I shot this on 5 different cameras, 2 separate trips, 2 different states on multiple days. It was a real journey. I definitely couldn’t have done it without Ash Rose Daniels, who I didn’t even know when I asked her to be in the video. Now we are so close and she was the perfect person for my romance story in Brooklyn.”
Watch the music video for Brooklyn BB below
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