Bambara have introduced a brand new album, Birthmarks, which is able to on arrive on March 12, 2025, by way of Wharf Cat Data in North America and Bella Union in the remainder of the world. The follow-up to 2020’s Stray and 2022’s Love on My Thoughts EP was made in collaboration with co-producer Graham Sutton. At this time, the Brooklyn trio have shared a William Hart-directed video for the lead single, ‘Pray to Me’. Test it out and discover the album cowl and tracklist beneath.
Discussing the brand new music, the band’s Reid Bateh mentioned: “A one-eyed man arrives at a rustic karaoke night time with a knife in his pocket and a plan to win over Elena, the article of his obsession. His fantasy unravels when he sees her kissing a stranger on the bar. The music barrels together with a raucous mania mirroring the one-eyed man’s spiraling psyche because it begins to whirl towards a murderous climax.”
Birthmarks options further instrumentation together with sax, trumpet, vibraphone, harp, violin, and viola. Midwife’s Madeline Johnston and Crack Cloud’s Emma Acs additionally contributed visitor vocals.
Reid’s twin brother, drummer Blaze Bateh, added: “Graham was nice at pushing us away from outdated habits, getting us to consider the identical moments in a music with utterly totally different lighting, or from totally different digicam angles. We talked loads about music that places you in a cinematic area, like Sade and Portishead, and we centered extra on the beats than we’d up to now. We wished it to maneuver otherwise; we wished sure moments to breathe.”
Birthmarks Cowl Paintings:
Birthmarks Tracklist:
1. Hiss
2. Letters From Sing Sing
3. Face Of Love
4. Pray To Me
5. Holy Bones
6. Elena’s Dream
7. As a result of You Requested
8. Dive Shrine
9. Smoke
10. Loretta
