Music like Ginger Root

Ginger Root is an American indie soul music project from Huntington Beach, California led by singer-songwriter and instrumentalist Cameron Lew. Lew has self-described the project's musical sound as "aggressive elevator soul", also citing inspiration as coming from groups such as Vulfpeck, Toro y Moi, White Denim, and Feist. On tour, Ginger Root has supported bands such as Khruangbin and Last Dinosaurs.

In the studio, Ginger Root consists of solely Lew. On tour, Ginger Root also currently includes Lew's high school friends Matt Carney (drums) and Dylan Hovis (bass).

The music of Ginger Root is released under Acrophase Records.

Ginger Root began as Lew was in the Huntington Beach-based band Van Stock. In mid-2016, he wrote a few songs that he felt didn't fit into the band's existing sound and made an EP out of them. According to Lew, that EP “turned into an LP”, becoming Spotlight People, and “I slapped the name Ginger Root on it", a name coming from a live Vulfpeck performance of "It Gets Funkier" he discovered on YouTube at 3 A.M one morning, where frontman Jack Stratton chanted "uh, uh ginger root".