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Festive fun begins this week with the Christmas light trail at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Elsewhere, Little Simz comes to Glasgow and Great Eastern takes over Edinburgh's music venues.
by 2.14.21 8:00am Love in all its forms — whether the first spark of attraction or the deadly silence as a romance withers — has always been at the heart of great songwriting. And what's Valentine's Day if not to celebrate a good, happy relationship, but also bemoan all of those really bad mistakes made in the name of love? On UKNY at 11 tonight, nothing but songs about love or the lack of it. In the mix, the London/Cambridgeshire septet Black Country, New Road who have released the most riveting, musically accomplished, and ambitious debut album of 2021 (yes, it's only February, but it'...
The rowdy UK postpunk band dropped their eagerly awaited debut album on Friday.
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 fence, ready to be replaced with a new one with concrete foundations and slats that will let the ivy cre...
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. âIt was super emotional,â Tyler Hyde recalls of the missive sent to Black Country, New Road, the bassist tells NME via Zoom from her parentsâ house in Essex. âNo one else who was offering us a deal was exp...