The song appears on the duo’s forthcoming album
Seven-time Grammy nominees Black Pumas drop the undeniably catchy banger “Ice Cream (Pay Phone),” the fourth track to be unveiled from the band’s highly anticipated new album, Chronicles of a Diamond, due this Friday, October 27th. Due to popular demand, the band has also announced additional live dates in Austin and Chicago.
“Ice Cream (Pay Phone)” was written and co-produced by the band’s singer-songwriter Eric Burton and produced by guitarist Adrian Quesada. Burton wrote the fuzzed-out, falsetto-laced love song years ago, then further developed it with bassist/keyboardist Josh Blue during an impromptu session at two in the morning. “When left alone I tend to work in an unorthodox way, where the colors don’t go together quite like you’d expect them to,” says Burton, whose lyrics playfully interpolate a classic jump-rope rhyme. “With that song the big, distorted guitar doesn’t seem like it should work with how I’m singing, but it sounded so soulful in a way that felt just right to me.”
Completed by Quesada at his studio, “Ice Cream (Pay Phone)” ultimately induces a trance-like euphoria thanks to its hypnotic rhythms and swirling guitar lines. “A lot of Eric’s ideas lately have had a meditative quality, where all these repetitive motifs are happening in the background while the song changes around them,” says Quesada. “As soon as I heard ‘Ice Cream’ I loved it, because it was so radically different from anything we’d done before, or anything I would’ve come up with on my own.”
The music video was directed by Alan del Rio Ortiz and shot on location in the band’s hometown of Austin, Texas with friends and other local performers hand-selected by Eric Burton.
“More Than A Love Song” – the first single released from the new album – has amassed 3.5+ million streams and is currently No. 1 on triple-A radio, No. 1 on Billboard’s Adult Alternative Chart, and No. 1 on Americana radio. “Mrs. Postman,” is another hooky jam from the project.
