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  • Summary: The fifth full-length release from Brooklyn-based trio Bambara features guest appearances by Emma Acs and Midwife.
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  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
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  1. Apr 3, 2025
    80
    This remains a rock album that won’t sound out of place in the daytime schedule on 6Music.
  2. Uncut
    Apr 2, 2025
    80
    Captivatingly widescreen stuff. [May 2025, p.27]
  3. Mojo
    Apr 2, 2025
    80
    Enthralling fever dream of an album. [Apr 2025, p.82]
  4. Apr 2, 2025
    70
    Bateh's voice sounds a bit more worn and weary, not unlike latter-day Nick Cave, and it feels like there's an increase in electronic textures, but otherwise the band is sticking to their stock-in-trade, down to writing melodies which sound familiar to their body of work. That said, there is more of a conceptual storyline to this album, involving a character named Elena and the man who murdered her boyfriend.
  5. Apr 2, 2025
    60
    Without the literary cues being on show, there’s somewhat of a jarring effect as the record staggers between styles; the menacing high-pitched note that pierces the rumbling bass of ‘Holy Bones’ hints at danger, but comes met with an underwhelming chorus.