Alec Benjamin - 1994

Today, rising singer-songwriter Alec Benjamin has unveiled his newest song “1994,” available now at all DSPs and streaming services. On his latest, Benjamin throws it back to the early ‘90s with a vivid and nostalgic story of growing up during that time. The track is accompanied by a lyric video.

The release of “1994” heralds the official announcement of Benjamin’s eagerly awaited debut mixtape, “Narrated For You” arriving everywhere on Friday, November 16th via Atlantic Records. The prolific sonic storyteller’s debut project will also feature the previously released global streaming hits “If We Have Each Other,” “The Boy In The Bubble” “Death of a Hero,” and “Outrunning Karma.” In addition, the mixtape includes chart-climbing single lead single, “Let Me Down Slowly,” currently impacting at multi-format radio outlets nationwide having already hit Spotify’s Top 10 Global & US Viral charts with over 85 million global streams to date. “Let Me Down Slowly” is joined by an official companion video, now approaching 10 million views via Benjamin’s official YouTube page. Blackbook gave both the song and Alec himself high praise, writing “a stunningly visceral new single, “Let Me Down Slowly,” strikingly exhibits both his youthful but compelling vocal delivery and his gift for lyrical complexity.”

Benjamin – who performed his first-ever headline shows this summer to sold-out venues in Brooklyn and Los Angeles – is currently getting ready to embark on his debut North American headline tour, set to get underway November 8th at Dallas, TX’s Three Links and then travel the continent through mid-December. Dates are nearly completely sold out – for info and remaining ticket availability, please visit alecbenjamin.com/tour. See complete itinerary below. In addition, Benjamin will appear at a number of upcoming radio-sponsored holiday concerts across the country, including NEW 102.7's Holiday in NEW York Featuring Charlie Puth, set for NYC’s historic Bacon Theatre on December 13th. The New Year will see Benjamin’s debut headline tour of Europe and the United Kingdom, set to begin in January 2019. Additional worldwide live dates will be announced soon.

Now boasting over 100 million worldwide streams thus far, Benjamin is quickly proving one of the year’s most popular and applauded new artists, with TIME Magazine praising him as “a singer-songwriter whose voice breathes youthful innocence but whose narrative-led lyrics have a world-weary grasp of reality.” PAPER recently hailed Benjamin as a “24-year-old singer-songwriter whose lyrics standout in the sea of same-sounding tracks that often circulate around the pop sphere,” noting that he “has already proven himself through his ability to marry a customized lo-fi sound and infectious melodies with his sagacious narratives about life's hardships.”