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With only one album to perform, the band are already altering songs, adding tweaks to live performances whenever they do get to play. Evans and Hyde speak about how they stay strong not only as musicians but as friends and colleagues as well as being self-aware of the impact their music and personalities can have on listeners. They also bring up the idea of getting to perform live sometime soon, with the promise and glee of getting to come to America.    The imagery for the album is basi...

Experimental and Promising; A Review of Black Country, New Road’s ‘For The First Time’ For the First Time comes after two years of anticipation from audiences. Having made live appearances since late 2018 and releasing their first single just over two years ago (which would show up in a new recording on this album), the band – comprising of Isaac Wood, Georgia Ellery, Lewis Evans, Tyler Hyde, May Kershaw, Charlie Wayne and Luke Mark – have gradually picked up a cult following, oft...

Key Track: While We Wait Following up her JUNO Award-winning sophomore album Stay Tuned!, Montreal singer-songwriter Dominique Fils-Aimé dives even deeper into the classic soul, jazz and blues that serve as her primary muse. Taking those influences into the future produces a contemporary groove that is along the lines of similarly powerful and inspired composers such as Laura Mvula and others. Each of her records has delved into the roots of African-American music and culture, with Three Lit...

Cal Cashin , February 4th, 2021 09:23 Black Country, New Road are one of the most exciting bands in a standout London music scene, and this album is a candid portrait of where the band are at a few years into their existence, finds Cal Cashin First impressions are seldom wrong. And when I saw Black Country, New Road for the first time, it was one such occasion. Autumn 2018, they towered over me from atop the 100 Club stage; equal parts bombast, terror and ecstasy. A eureka moment in real time. ...

The Vinyl District February 2, 2021 Initially from Cambridge and now based in London, Black Country, New Road is a seven-member outfit honing a sound that draws from Louisville post-rock, UK post-punk, Krautrock, and even klezmer. In 2019 the band’s songs “Athens, France” and “Sunglasses” made a bit of a splash, with both included in new versions on their debut full-length, as the promise travels nearer to a fully realized collective vision. All the while, they retain a youthful verve...

Richard Foster , February 1st, 2021 08:57 After the Quietus ran a lengthy interview with BC,NR lyricist Isaac Wood last winter, now Richard Foster talks at length to Lewis Evans, Tyler Hyde, Georgia Ellery and Luke Mark about what really makes the band tick Black Country, New Road by El Hardwick Lewis Evans, saxophonist, points the laptop camera at a large pile of wooden planks he has collected at the end of what I presume to be the Black Country, garden. The pile was the neighbour’s old fenc...

Credit: Maxwell Grainger If the love letter has not been entirely cast aside in the 21st Century, it is at least an art form that appears to be dying on the vine. For legendary electronic and experimental record label Ninja Tune (Young Fathers, Bonobo, Bicep), however, it seems the charms of a seven-piece band with two singles was enough to bring out the sweet nothings. “It was super emotional,” Tyler Hyde recalls of the missive sent to Black Country, New Road, the bassist tells NME ...

In an interview from years ago, the comedian and occasional music journalist Stewart Lee bemoaned, or perhaps merely pointed out, a cultural phenomenon. He noted the glut of Scottish power-pop bands like Teenage Fanclub who perhaps wouldn’t have come into existence had a sudden influx of Big Star LPs not appeared in their local record shops during the late 1980s. Speaking to a distancing from the local, Lee claims that the current age of immediate information exchange causes the same thing to...