NEWS
2019/12/04
If it’s menacing but beautiful, Bambara are here to write a song about it. With bookish description and dramatic flair, the Brooklyn-based trio, formerly of Athens, Georgia, perform driving death rock that could play behind both a John Cheever story or a David Fincher movie. Sonically, it’s all haunting reverb, revival keyboards, throbbing bass and moaned vocals; lyrically, it’s an exploration of backalleys, oil rainbows, and tobacco-stained fingers. This mixture of gut-instinct emotion and literary illustration made their 2018 release Shadow On Everything a favorite of members of bands like IDLES and Daughters; now, with their upcoming record Stray, the band goes harder on their gritty world-building, creating characters that feel realistic in their windswept insanity. “I definitely draw ...
