BAMBARA - Shadow On Everything LP

Highly recommended.

Brooklyn-based trio BAMBARA has been honing its noise/punk brutalism since forming in Athens, GA, in 2009.

Shadow On Everything, the band's third full length, pulls its approach into sharp focus, and the result is an absolute triumph for forward-thinking post-punk. In marrying the maniacal ravings of The Birthday Party and the ugliness of early Swans with the tangled cowpunk of The Gun Club, BAMBARA create something wholly idiosyncratic, and ultimately more satisfying than most anything else in the current post-punk landscape.

One of the best concept albums of the decade. Bambara have been making a really great style of post-punk over the last few years that's very dark, dense, clogged up with noise, heavy with production and atmosphere in a claustrophobic, suffocating way. They've mastered a kind of sound and production that is unique, powerful, and very evocative of the thick of night. With this album they've stripped away a lot of the swampy noise and reduced the punk aggression but still retained, and even improved on, their amazing dark and dense atmosphere.

"... this is a REALLY cool record." - Henry Rollins (I wonder WHO put him onto Bambara?)