Crumb Announces New Album, Shares Video For Title Track 'AMAMA'

Crumb Announces New album, Shares Video For Title Track 'AMAMA'

AMAMA Out May 17 via the Band's Own Crumb Records

March 29, 2024

By Mark Redfern

Photo by Jacob Consenstein

Quartet based in New York Crumb have announced a new album, AMAMAand shared its title via a music video. AMAMA will be released on May 17 via the band's label, Crumb Records. Check out the 'AMAMA' video below, followed by the tracklist and album art.

Crumb features vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Lila Ramani, keyboardist and saxophonist Bri Aronow, bassist Jesse Brotter and drummer Jonathan Gilad. The band recorded the album in Los Angeles and produced it with Johnscott Sanford and Jonathan Rado. AMAMA is the band's third album, following 2021 Ice melting and 2019 Jinx.

Ramani said of the new song in a press release: “'AMAMA' is dedicated to my namesake, my grandmother, whose voice is heard throughout the song. A video she sent me via WhatsApp of her singing initially inspired the song's melody and ethos, from which I built its slick, warped foundation. It's a love song! My partner and creative director of Crumb [Abraham El Makawy] directed the video, which combines archival footage of his family from the neighborhood we grew up in, footage from the band, as well as drawings from 702 fans who helped us animate the final part of the video. The song is the title track and the spiritual center of our new album.”

AMAMA Track List:

1. From outside a windowsill
2. Side by side
3. The Bug
4. AMAMA
5. Genie
6. Crushxd
7. Nightly News
8. (Only in) Brussels
9. Sleep Talk
10. Dust Bunny
11. Swarm
12. XXX

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