Crumb announce AMAMA, their third full-length album slated for release on May 17th through Crumb Records. Crumb, the collaboration of singer and multi-instrumentalist Lila Ramani, keyboardist, and saxophonist Bri Aronow, bassist Jesse Brotter, and drummer Jonathan Gilad, have come together again to create their most carefree and open-hearted endeavour to date, a showcase of poetic abstraction and confessional self-awareness that cuts deep. Alongside the album’s announcement, the band release its title track, which serves as an upbeat and optimistic tribute to Ramani’s grandmother. The band will perform in London on May 25th at Wide Awake Festival.
Speaking about the album, lead single, and its video, Ramani shares:
“AMAMA is dedicated to my namesake, my grandmother, whose voice is sampled throughout the song. A video sent to me over WhatsApp of her singing originally inspired the melody and ethos of the song, from which I built its glitchy, warped foundation. It’s a love song! My partner and Crumb’s creative director [Abraham El Makawy] directed the video, which combines his family’s archival footage of the neighbourhood we grew up in, home videos from the band, as well as drawings from 702 fans who helped us animate the last part of the video. The song is the title track and spiritual centre of our new album.”
AMAMA exists at the crossroads of psychedelia, pop, jazz, and rock and cements Crumb as a band uniquely their own. The third album was produced alongside Johnscott Sanford and Jonathan Rado in Los Angeles and is an incandescent statement about searching for solid ground, connection, and clarity in a life of nomadic upheaval.
1. From Outside A Window Sill
2. Side By Side
3. The Bug
4. AMAMA
5. Genie
6. Crushxd
7. Nightly News
8. (Alone In) Brussels
9. Sleep Talk
10. Dust Bunny
11. Swarmed
12. XXX
Stay tuned for more Crumb coming soon. Album pre-order: https://crumb.lnk.to/AMAMA
Photo credit – Jacob Consenstein