Brooklyn, New York post punk/noise pop/alt/deathrock band Bambara have announced the release of their fifth studio album ‘Birthmarks‘.
Along with the announcement the band have also shared the lead single, “Pray To Me“. The record will be out on March 14th, 2025 via Bella Union and Wharf Cat Records. Pre-order your copy here.
An extraordinary, nocturnally-inclined modernist rock band drenched in Southern Gothic, Bambara have evolved their macabre vision to perfection with Birthmarks. Created in collaboration with co-producer Graham Sutton from UK experimental pioneers Bark Psychosis, it’s not so much a concept album as a stunningly complex work of narrative fiction, featuring memorable characters including the aforementioned C&W karaoke-bar siren with halo-braided hair and a one-eyed murderer begging for the electric chair – all not exactly set to music, but actually born from it.
‘Birthmarks’ emerges directly from the band’s favored aesthetics and themes, but captures them with a new sense of sonic adventurousness and thematic subtlety, resulting in a collection of songs that are somehow both the band’s most apocalyptic and most poignant.
Check out Pray to Me below, followed by the album’s artwork and tracklist.
Bambara “Birthmarks” Tracklist:
- Hiss
- Letters To Sing Sing
- Face Of Love
- Pray To Me
- Holy Bones
- Elena’s Dream
- Because You Asked
- Dive Shrine
- Smoke
- Loretta
