SPILL CONTEST  

WIN A PAIR OF TICKETS TO SEE CRUMB WITH L’RAIN AND DISCOVERY ZONE AT THE CONCERT HALL ON AUGUST 31!

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WINNERS WILL RECEIVE:

2 TICKETS TO THE CRUMB CONCERT HALL SHOW ON AUGUST 31!

SPILL CONTEST: WIN A PAIR OF TICKETS TO SEE CRUMB WITH L’RAIN AND DISCOVERY ZONE AT THE CONCERT HALL ON AUGUST 31!

*CONTEST CLOSES: AUGUST 27, 2024 @ MIDNIGHT

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New York psych-pop band Crumb return with AMAMA, their most carefree and open-hearted album to date. A soundscape full of playful and patchwork experimentation — glitchy pitch-shifted vocals, cell phone recordings, nautical blips, sax mouthpiece solos, blasted drum samples, and piano strings dampened with Silly Putty — AMAMA continues to deepen the band’s hypnotic sound in a cohesive line back through 2021’s Ice Melt, 2019’s Jinx, and breakout EPs Locket and Crumb. Without a doubt, AMAMA is Crumb — singer and multi-instrumentalist Lila Ramani, keyboardist and saxophonist Bri Aronow, bassist Jesse Brotter, and drummer Jonathan Gilad — at their most animated.

Buoyed by Ramani’s songwriting, at turns poetically abstract and directly confessional, AMAMA culls the strange encounters from Crumb’s touring years, tracing the dizzying path of a group that’s been in movement for nearly a decade. “Crushxd” is an ecstatic requiem for a turtle flattened under the tires of a tour van; “(Alone in) Brussels” finds Ramani in forced isolation in a distant city. On “The Bug,” we’re at a pit stop in a seedy motel, where a critter’s bite leaves a nagging feeling: “It’s always on my mind / it’s just always on my mind,” Ramani repeats over a creeping groove as she wanders the place at night. On “Side by Side,” perhaps the most candid track on AMAMA , frenetic percussion and disorienting, layered synth envelop Ramani as she considers the personal sacrifices she’s made along the way.

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