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Bambara – ‘Birthmarks’ album review


Based around the theme of reincarnation – and a story shaped by songwriter Reid Bateh about women linked through generations by dreams, snakebites and violence in dive bars – ‘Birthmarks’ is Bambara’s fifth album. Packed with darkness and troubled characters, Reid said ‘I wanted to write about the idea of love surviving after death, or…

Bambara – ‘Pray to Me’


Bambara have shared ‘Pray to Me’ ahead of the release of their new album ‘Birthmarks’, out on 12 March 2025 via Wharf Cat and Bella Union. With eerie and gothic tendencies taking over, complete with Reid Bateh’s deliberately slow and unsettling vocals about ‘singing country karaoke’, there’s a real intrigue to this song from its…