Crumb

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, AMAMA continues to deepen the band’s hypnotic sound, existing at the crossroads of psychedelia, pop, jazz, and rock. 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. The project traces the dizzying path of a group that’s been in movement for nearly a decade, and is buoyed by Ramani’s songwriting, at turns poetically abstract and directly confessional. Produced in collaboration with Johnscott Sanford and Jonathan Rado, AMAMA is the band’s third full-length album and fifth independent release via Crumb Records.