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Saturday 30 August 2025

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Next month Brooklyn trio Bambara release their anticipated fifth album Birthmarks due out 14th March via Bella Union and on Wharf Cat Records in North America. The follow-up to their 2020 breakthrough Stray, the album was created in collaboration with co-producer Graham Sutton (These New Puritans, Jarvis Cocker, Sea Power) from UK experimental pioneers Bark Psychosis and features guest vocals by Madeline Johnston (Midwife), Emma Acs (Crack Cloud) and Bria Salmena. Following the singles “Pray To Me” and “Letters From Sing Sing”, today Bambara share new single “Face Of Love”, the final preview of the upcoming album. Watch the video HERE.

Where “Letters From Sing Sing” was a sample of Bambara’s customary hard charging sound and “Pray To Me” to me was described as “the kind of driving, anthemic, cinematic and darkly romantic song that Bambara do so well” by BrooklynVegan, “Face of Love” sees the trio explore new territory. The track is as hypnotic and disorienting as the recollection in its story, Reid sing-speaking over a twilit track inspired by DJ Shadow and Cocteau Twins. Blaze cites other brooding, atmospheric acts like Massive Attack and Portishead as influences on this more textured, restrained iteration of Bambara’s sound.

Commenting on the track Bambara vocalist Reid Bateh says: “The story begins when a server at a diner reminds a man of a woman from his past. Inspiration for the music came from listening to Cocteau Twins songs reversed and slowed down. It features guest lead vocals from Madeline Johston (Midwife), backing vocals by Jen Monroe and harp played by Marilu Donovan (LEYA).”