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Beloved New York band Crumb's third album features transient, lyrically minimal recollections over a collage of jazz, pop and psych-rock.

AMAMA, the new record from New York collective Crumb, is another beguiling chunk of spacey psych-pop, a continuation of their playful experimentation with genre and the possibilities of sound.

Welcome to the fourteenth Songs of the Week of 2024. This week Andy Von Pip, Mark Moody, and Scott Dransfield helped me decide what should make the list. We seriously considered over 20 songs this week and narrowed it down to a Top 10.

Crumb’s upcoming third full-length album Amama will release on May 17. – JACOB CONSENTEINPIC

The New York-based band stopped in San Diego as part of their country-wide tour. On Friday night, Crumb showcased their live performance and sound quality at the House of Blues.

Open share drawer On their second album, the Brooklyn quartet sinks deeper into their dread-filled chill-out sound, but they become sharper and more focused in the process.  On their 2019 debut, ,Crumb slowly lowered dazed psych-rock into a loungey abyss, evoking the feeling of one long summer day spent entirely inside the endless buzz of an anxious mind. It was unnerving and terrific. Before forming at college in Boston, the Brooklyn-based quartet honed their chops in low-profile jazz, sou...

Rolling Stone Menu Psychedelic Indie-Rock Band Crumb Comes Back Down to Earth The band discusses the metaphysical questions that informed its new record Ice Melt Courtesy of Third Pupil In conversation with the band Crumb, the word “fluidity” comes up often. First, when they talk about recording their second album, Ice Melt, in Los Angeles. “As a place, it looks one way, but it may actually be another way,” singer-guitarist Lila Ramani muses. “It looks so serene an...