Rubblebucket - Year Of The Banana '2024

Tracks list

Rubblebucket’s new album explores one particular year from the
band’s 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) Kalmia’s 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 couldn’t 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 there’s nothing retro about
Rubblebucket’s sound; they’re 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, it’s 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 process has potential to feel as
free and sweet as peeling a banana on the dance floor.

Tracklist:
1 Stella The Begonia
2 Moving Without Touching
3 The Sorrow That Comes With Loving You
4 Rattlesnake
5 Morning Glory Blanket
6 Go All The Way With Me
7 Boomerang
8 Swimming In The Light
9 Forest Bathing

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