5/19/23 – Northside Tavern, 4163 Hamilton Ave, Cincinnati, OH – Buy Tickets
Y La Bamba recently announced the April 28 release of their new album Lucha with the new single, “Dibujos De Mi Alma. “KCRW premiered the track on Morning Becomes Eclectic calling it a, “meticulously crafted sonic bomb” and NPR Music said, “[‘Dibujos de Mi Alma’] captures how it feels to yearn for someone while trying to avoid the pitfalls of toxic love.” Pitchfork acclaimed, “Part wistful indie pop, part psychedelic folk, the lead single from the group’s seventh album, Lucha, makes peace with ambivalence.”
Y La Bamba will be touring the country in support of Lucha, coming to Northside Tavern in Cincinnati on May 19.
To declare one thematic narrative from Lucha, Y La Bamba’s seventh album, would be to chisel away a story within a story within a story into the illusion of something singular.
“Lucha is a symbol of how hard it is for me to tackle healing, live life, and be present,” Luz Elena Mendoza Ramos, lead vocalist and producer of Y La Bamba, says of the title behind the album which translates from Spanish to English as ‘fight’ and is also a nickname for Luz, which means light. The album explores multiplicity—love, queerness, Mexican American and Chicanx identity, family, intimacy, yearning, loneliness—and chronicles a period of struggle and growth for Mendoza Ramos as a person and artist.
