released 01 January 2010
Reid Bateh - Vocals/Guitar
Blaze Bateh - Drums/Vocals
William Brookshire - Bass/Vocals

Engineers:
JOEL HATSTAT recorded Repeat After Me, Stay Gray, Swim With the Trees, Chiromancy

DAVID BARBE recorded Drag Hesitation and Feed the Pigs

Cover photo: a still from Peggy Ahwesh's film The Color of Love (1994)

PRESS for DOG EAR DAYS:

"Dog Ear Days is some pretty outstanding shit. [...] Bambara distinguish themselves here by virtue of focus like a laser beam between the eyes. It’s an overwhelming enterprise, all this intensity of noise and darkness and beauty boiled down to less than twenty five minutes. [...] makes me feel a little something of what punks must’ve felt hearing Vs. (1982) for the first time—the sound of something new and strange brought potently into the framework of punishing rock music." - ..Chet Betz, COKE MACHINE GLOW

“…their music is a thrilling blast of dark, noisy, tension-filled post-punk that pulls back and then rebuilds upon itself in a weird, looming sort of way that draws you in.” – ..Jeff Clark, STOMP AND STAMMER

"Twenty-five minutes of prime spacecase, staring-at-the-drone performed with all the visceral aggression of an industrial band or early Public Image Limited [...] Dog Ear Days is well attuned to the musical spirit of the moment; this band wouldn't be out of place sharing stages with Crocodiles, A Place To Bury Strangers, Ceremony, or even Wavves but there's an extra darkness that sets them slightly apart, out of phase. [...] The way they physically attack their instruments is downright masochistic, they take a joy in whipping up a noise to the point where your fingers flinch at the thought of blood against guitar strings. And the way the album is recorded is magnificently raw and intimate, every song is like this cavernous gothic wound. The drums and feedback are downright fucking eldritch. [...] For the most part, the songs are unrelenting noise raids, with the occasional mournful procession -- ya gotta breathe sometime. What you're hearing is the ante being upped to 11." - Matthew Moyer, INK19

"Athens drone fiends Bambara, though clearly owing a debt to Spacemen 3/Spiritualized, are less Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space and more “Oh my god, that Sputnik Satellite just crash landed to Earth and hit a bus full of senior citizens!” Shoegazing bliss is run through with a healthy dose of primitive industrial clang and clatter. Just listen to the drums! They attack their instruments with a visceral glee. Think about A Place To Bury Strangers and Ulterior and ringing eardrums." - POP NIHIL

"Who's ever idea it was to combine witch house and garage rock is a genius! Because this is amazing." -MINIMUM ADVICE

"BAMBARA have created an ep that is what the format does best: it teases you, ends too quickly and gets listened to over and over. It's brash, in your face and totally fucking radical and I can't wait to hear more from these dudes. You're gonna love this." - FUCK YEAH! GO TEAM!

"The special thing about Bambara's sound is that it paints post-rock’s quietus, punk rock’s noise and visceral potency and shoegaze’s smudgy impressionism on the same picture plane, so the viewer can only hope to take it all in at once." - ..Chis Benton, FLAGPOLE

"samt en klockren Bowie." - ..NO MODEST BEAR

"Hypnotic is not a term one often associates with punk, but Athens-based trio Bambara fit both molds [...] Dog Ear Days is a bit of a mystery as its mere existence possesses something strangely magical [...] They are, truly, their own beast. And like any wild animal, there is something immensely beautiful about it that simply cannot be ignored." - FENSEPOST

"Hearing the awesome, melodic noise terror that Bambara has cultivated in their adult years, I can't help but grow curious as to how these young gentlemen started out [...] But if it sounded anything like they do now, then their parents must have either done something right, or horribly wrong." -TREBLE

"Seeing a Bambara set live is sorta like getting trapped in a long, dark corridor with the vague sensation that you are being followed by the thing that terrifies you most … so long as what you’re scared of is experimental indie bands with a tendency to be mellow very loudly." - WEEKLY DIG BOSTON

"You will not understand this record until you hear it for yourself. It never plays the same way twice, either. With each listen, one discovers something new. It's an acquired taste, as in, "You better acquire a taste for this, otherwise, you're missing the fuck out." - KISSING TIGER BLOG