Black Bananas are back with Bad Bunch, their first album since 2014's Electric Brick Wall. Pitchfork reports that the Jennifer Herrema-led trio have signed with Fire Records, with the new LP due later this year.
That is not a tiny gap. Electric Brick Wall came out on Drag City in 2014, and Black Bananas have mostly existed in motion since then: festival appearances, radio work, archival orbit, and Herrema's larger universe of Royal Trux, RTX, visual art, fashion, and whatever else refuses to stay in one lane.
Fire Records' artist page frames Bad Bunch as a 2026 release assembled across more than a decade of work rather than a clean comeback reset. The label describes the record as material that began in 2015 and kept getting revisited, cut apart, repositioned, and rebuilt over time.
The lineup around Herrema remains Brian McKinley and Kurt Midness, according to the Fire Records bio. Stereogum also notes that Fire's announcement connects the album to a Bad Bunch retail space built from Herrema's archive, with one-off pieces, limited art objects, accessories, and Lost Arc materials.
Black Bananas always made the most sense as a collision point: damaged pop, fried electronics, underground rock, performance, junk-shop glamour, and Herrema's absolute allergy to neat categories. If Bad Bunch really is the current state of all that work instead of a nostalgia check-in, this could be one of the year's weirder comeback records in the best possible way.