‘Dreamviolence’ is Bambara’s 2013 full-length follow-up to their acclaimed debut EP, ‘Dog Ear Days’ (2010). Now remastered for 2023.

After playing countless deafening shows in their hometown of Athens, touring the US in sweaty house shows and sharing bills with Iceage, Grimes, Liturgy, A Place to Bury Strangers, and Parts and Labor, Bambara decided to leave their beloved Athens and move to a basement apartment in Bushwick, Brooklyn for a change. Here they practiced, slept and recorded for the majority of 2012. Following the release of a Kate Bush cover and a 10-minute improv noise EP, ‘RINGS’, early in the year, Bambara began to work on ‘Dreamviolence’.

With a minimal recording set-up and little sunlight, the band was able to completely capture the dark, grimy, noisy sound they are known for while maintaining the lush beauty that glues it all together.

Reid’s voice croons and snarls the fragmented images of the city. Blaze and William’s driving rhythm section ploughs and swings through the dirge of vocal noise with furious power. Bambara don’t want you to get comfortable in ‘Dreamviolence’. They prefer to send you through vortexes of haunting noise before you reach the dreamy euphoria waiting in the wreckage.