In the organizer's words:

Accomplished American singer/songwriter Brookln Dekker is diving deep into his new, most ambitious and immediate album to date: "Neither Up Nor Down," due out September 26, 2025.

Building on a momentous 2024 with 70 million streams and dozens of concerts to ever-growing audiences across Europe, Dekker (as he's better known) has tapped into a rich personal vein for the 11-song LP. "Neither Up Nor Down" defies both the pitch black and the blinding light of longtime love, the divine, and the relationship of the human and animal selves.

This is carried by Dekker's boldest and purest songwriting to date - aided by his longtime friend and companion, Berlin-based drummer Stefan Wittich, and mixed/mastered by Zach Hanson (Bon Iver, The Staves, Low, Waxahatchee).

Several songs from Neither Up Nor Down have been tested under Dekker's signature wide-brimmed hat at recent concerts. "Familiar Beat", one of the album's previously released singles, already feels like a Dekker classic with its upbeat "Boom Ba/Boom Ba" chorus that invites you to bop along. The first single "Not Feeling Up" is the most melancholy fun you can have in a three-minute pop pick-me-up. Dekker ironically demands: "I'm not feeling up now / Not feeling up now / Can we get down?"

Meanwhile, the sparse, heartbreaking falsetto breakdown of "Photograph" is one of the simplest yet most harrowing tracks Dekker has ever made; its melting mix of love and angst forms the core of "Neither Up Nor Down".

The fractured beauty and complexity of lived relationships is unflinchingly picked apart in the album's milestone, "The Dove". Dekker sings a duet with Ruth, his wife of 22 years and bandmate in Rue Royale. The two sing: "Are we still in love?" Dekker remembers: "Ruth sang the choruses of 'The Dove' with me. In those moments, all was right with the world."

"Let Me Take You" reveals a light-hearted but determined purpose: "I want to see our second half / I want to see her with you hand in hand / I want to make you laugh / I want to stay with you till the end." Dekker says: "There was a despair, a sadness that I had to work through. The music has blown me away in recent years. It keeps showing up for me; it pulls me out, gets me out and leads me on a better path."

This "surfacing" led to four Dekker albums in just five years, including "Neither Up Nor Down" directly following "Future Ghosts" (2024), which followed "I Won't Be Your Foe" (2022) and "Slow Reveal: Chapter One" (2020).

The versatile songwriter grew up in the US Midwest and moved to Ruth's native UK after the couple formed the indie folk band Rue Royale. The duo toured Europe extensively from 2008 to 2014 before taking a break to start a family. Dekker recorded 'We Share Phenomena' with German composer and old friend Lambert on BMG in 2018. That same year, the newly formed Rue Royale released "In Parallel" before Dekker's solo journey began in earnest in 2019.