Last month Brooklyn-based psych-pop quartet Crumb played an electrifying Sunday evening set alongside PHILTHY phavorites Jessica Pratt, Mannequin Pussy, and MUNA at Pitchfork Music Festival (There’s tons of footage on YouTube.), the final of three Midwest shows that served as the opening chapter of a North American headline (aside from Pitchfork) tour. The band are currently nearing the end of a monthlong break, but their tour will resume this coming Tuesday, August 20th, at our very own Brooklyn Bowl Philadelphia, where they’ll be joined by experimental instrumentalist L’Rain and Discovery Zone, the moniker of New York/Berlin-based musician and multimedia artist JJ Weihll, formerly of our old phriends Fenster.
Crumb – who have been doing this since 2016, when they dropped their self-titled debut EP – are touring behind AMAMA, their third full-length, which hit shelves this May. The album – which Pitchfork called their, “biggest and best album to date,” and Boston Globe characterized as, “a hazy resin of jazz and psychedelia” – is Crumb’s most playful yet, totally unafraid to embrace their ineffably charming quirks, including, “the use of glitchy pitch-shifted vocals, cell phone recordings, nautical blips, sax mouthpiece solos, blasted drum samples, and piano strings dampened with Silly Putty.”
AMAMA has already produced a handful of singles, including “The Bug,” one of our phavorite tracks of 2024 that features a music video directed by Haoyan of America, who’s collaborated a number of times with our buddies mmeadows. In addition to the vast majority of AMAMA, recent sets have also included handfuls of tracks from Crumb’s first two full-lengths: 2019’s Jinx and 2021’s Ice Melt. And the 1,000-capacity Brooklyn Bowl is actually slightly more intimate than the band’s last area appearance, at Union Transfer in November of 2021, so we would highly recommend getting your tickets (below) ASAP.
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