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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. “It was super emotional,” Tyler Hyde recalls of the missive sent to Black Country, New Road, the bassist tells NME via Zoom from her parents’ house in Essex. “No one else who was offering us a deal was exp...

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 occur in an accelerated and diversified state, as ideas and genres are blurred by dissemination on ...