Bambara - Stray (Black Vinyl) Compact Disc Amidst peeling birch

Amidst peeling birch

The result is something both familiar and uncanny

This follow-up to 2010’s acclaimed Crazy For You finds the proudly Southern Californian duo of Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno maturing in both their sound and perspective

sensory illusions

as well as an NES version

Bambara - Stray (Black Vinyl) Compact Disc Amidst peeling birchOne thing you wont be able to avoid on Bambaras 'Stray' is death. Its everywhere and inescapable, abstract and personified perhaps the key to the whole record. Death, however, wont be the first thing that strikes you about the groups fourth and greatest album to date. That instead will be its pulverising soundscape; by turns, vast, atmospheric, cool, broiling and at times on stand out tracks like Sing Me To The Street and Serafina simply overwhelming.