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New music: Bad Karma Boy's Liminal brings together voices across generations
Bad Karma Boy's new album pairs a search for identity with an extensive guest list. Rádio_FM's Peter Dolník hears potential for a wider radio audience.
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Bad Karma Boy's Liminal combines a wide guest roster with themes of identity and self-worth. Rádio_FM's Peter Dolník sees potential for broader radio play.
- Liminal is out through Slnko Records, with ten songs across 33 minutes.
- P L S includes a children's choir and a Zuzana Čaputová speech excerpt.
- The album launch concert is scheduled for December 4 in Bratislava.
For the week of October 30, Bad Karma Boy's Liminal brings a new release from the Bratislava band on Slnko Records. Its ten songs include guest singers, a children's choir and a passage from Zuzana Čaputová's speech at the 2021 Biela vrana awards.13
Slovakia and Czechia
The Slovak selection centres on an album whose collaborators span generations and include Czech groups Role and Island Mint. Reporting by oKulture.sk follows its beginnings in Costa Rica through to a planned Bratislava launch concert, while Peter Dolník's review for Rádio_FM / STVR considers how it differs from Bad Karma Boy's earlier Noc na zemi.13
Liminal
Released by the time of oKulture.sk's October 29 report, Liminal is described by the outlet as Bad Karma Boy's fifth studio album; the dossier does not establish an exact release day. It is out through Slnko Records, with ten tracks running to 33 minutes according to Rádio_FM / STVR. oKulture.sk presents the record as a personal statement about finding identity and self-worth in an in-between state. Frontman Juraj „Medveď“ Marikovič began putting together its initial musical ideas in Costa Rica, although unexpected events disrupted the intention to record the entire album there. The starting approach, as reported by oKulture.sk, dispensed with a fixed concept and prescribed limits. Marikovič describes the songs themselves as determining the instruments, tempos, lyrics and guests they needed. That account places the changing recording process alongside the album's stated subject: a search for a position between more clearly defined states. The reporting also identifies a broad roster of contributors, including Jana Kirschner, Juraj Podmanický, Lasky and Whisky, as well as Marián Slávka, Stano Palúch and Matúš Vallo.13
One specific meeting of voices comes in P L S. According to oKulture.sk, the title stands for truth, love and freedom; Bratislavský detský zbor participates in the song, whose ending uses Zuzana Čaputová's speech from the 2021 Biela vrana awards. Marikovič connects the children's participation with the questions those three ideas raise, and explains the choice of Čaputová through the band's view of her as an example of how politics should be conducted. Elsewhere, Rádio_FM / STVR identifies Lasky's contribution to Premeny and traces a sample in Pilates Princess to the ironic Instagram profile Awkward Flyer. The next dated event in the album's rollout is its launch concert at Nová tržnica in Bratislava: oKulture.sk gives Friday, December 4, 2026, at 19:30. The band hopes to bring most of the album's guests onstage for that occasion, although the report presents this as an ambition rather than a confirmed performance lineup.13
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