About

Prolific American songwriter Brookln Dekker is about to release his fourth album in five years.

Building on a quietly momentous 2024, which saw 70 million streams and dozens of shows to ever-growing audiences across Europe, Dekker (as he is better known) has mined a rich personal seam for the 11-song LP. Neither Up Nor Down braves both the pitch black
and blinding light of long-term love, the divine, and the relationship between the human and animal self.

This is carried by Dekker’s boldest and purest songcraft to date – aided by long-term friend and collaborator Berlin drummer Stefan Wittich, and mixed/mastered by Zach Hanson (Bon Iver, The Staves, Low, Waxahatchee).

Dekker has produced a string of well-received albums since venturing down the solo artiste route; donning his trademark wide-brimmed hat which makes regular appearances on stage and in his quirky social media videos. Neither Up Nor Down comes hot on the
heels of 2024’s Future Ghosts (and the Unreleased Pt1 EP), which followed I Won’t Be Your Foe (2022) and Slow Reveal: Chapter One (2020).
The versatile songwriter grew up in the American Midwest before moving to his wife Ruth’s UK homeland after the pair formed indie-folk band Rue Royale. The duo toured the European continent extensively from 2008-14 before a break to start a family.

Dekker recorded We Share Phenomena on BMG with German composer, and old friend, Lambert in 2018.

The same year, a regrouped Rue Royale released In Parallel before the Dekker solo journey began in earnest in 2019.
Fans who have followed Dekker’s development so far will know he’s an artist who deals deftly in juxtapositions – weeping and dancing; fear and hope; pale ghosts and vibrant life.

Neither Up Nor Down continues and crystallises this pattern by peering into the depths to move both body and soul.

Zac looks after Dekker in the UK, Poland, Spain & Portugal.