Daffo — aka Brooklyn-based artist Gabi Bamberg — recently completed a US tour supporting illuminati hotties and is set to go back on the road with Blondshell and Annie DiRussio in the coming months. As a brief glimpse of what we might hear, she has released a new single called “Absence Makes the Heart Grow”, and it’s a bitter statement on the damage that distance can do to a relationship. Produced by Rob Schnapf and leading into her affection for grunge music, the song deals in unresolved rage and frustration over the gradual decay off a long-distance relationship. Guitars storm and surge through a barely-contained emotional cyclone, drums pounding away at your insides while Bamberg howls into the void. It’s a powerful reckoning with the powerlessness that can be felt as intimate connections are severed and love withers.
“I wrote the song at the end of a relationship, and in my pain, I felt as though the cliche about distance making the heart grow fonder was a sham,” says Gamberg. “It made everything harder, the waves of emotion that accompanied reuniting and separating were too intense to navigate. So, I decided to twist the saying into something that felt more real to me.”
Listen below and check out some upcoming tour dates.
Tour Dates:
2/20 – Los Angeles, CA @ El Cid
5/16 – Brighton, EN @ The Great Escape Festival
5/30 – South Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground ^
5/31 – Montreal, QC @ Bar Le Ritz PDB ^
6/02 – Toronto, ON @ Velvet Underground ^
6/03 – Lakewood, OH @ Mahall’s ^
6/05 – Detroit, MI @ El Club ^
6/07 – Minneapolis, MN @ Fine Line ^
6/08 – Milwaukee, WI @ Vivarium ^
6/10 – St. Louis, MO @ Off Broadway ^
6/19 – Boston, MA @ Royale *
6/20 – Brookly, NY @ Brooklyn Steel *
6/21 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer *
6/24 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club *
6/26 – Asheville, NC @ The Orange Peel *
6/27 – Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse *
6/28 – Nashville, TN @ The Basement East *
^ w/ Annie DiRusso
* w/ Blondshell
“Absence Makes the Heart Grow” is out now via Concord. Follow Daffo on Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.
