Year Of The Banana | Indie Exclusive, Yellow & Brown Splatter Vinyl
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Rubblebuckets new album explores one particular year from the bands past known as the Year Of The Banana. Frontwoman Kalmia Traver has a personal practice of naming each year since 2011. However, in 2015 (Year Of The Banana) Kalmias romantic relationship with Rubblebucket co-founder Alex Toth fell apart, and that year was spent peeling off psychological layers in search of the sweetness that would allow the friendship, and the band, to continue. People get obsessed with the albums that were never finished because the band couldnt stay together, Kalmia says. But Year Of The Banana is the album that did get finished. So Rubblebucket is celebrating 15 years as a band with a record about the year it almost ended. Rubblebucket is still a through-and-through art rock dance band, virtuosic experimental musicians with a pop sensibility along the lines of Talking Heads, Prince, or Kate Bush. But theres nothing retro about Rubblebuckets sound; theyre mixing electronics with real instruments, especially horn sections (Alex plays trumpet, Kalmia sax) and they feel at home in the same universe as Caroline Polachek, SZA, or Chappell Roan. Listening to Year Of The Banana, its impossible to overlook how joyful it is, how full of hope. The album speaks to the power of transforming and adapting relationships in a time when the world needs it most. The album has a transforming effect, inspiring us to face ourselves and radically keep loving each other, assuring us that the unpredictable pro
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Catalogue Number: LP-EHR-060IEFormat: Vinyl LP
Artist: Rubblebucket
Release Date: 18 October 2024
Genre: Alternative
Label: EggHunt Records/Clandestine
Distributor: MGM Music
