Black Country, New Road with Adam Lambert on vocals for the festival sets is what I’m hearing
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Hope they keep Instrumental from the first album in their set, what a bop
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It’s clear that I didn’t give that first album the time it needed, and I hate some of the smartarse comments I made about it up thread, because I think it’s genuinely one of the most special debuts of recent years - the only thing I don’t love about it is the jacket (though I still hunted down a signed one recently).
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Finally listened to the album in full today after a couple of weeks of not being able to find the time to listen properly. The whole thing is fantastic, but Basketball Shoes is phenomenal.
Excellent. Can’t quite believe that in the year 2022 I’m inadvertently introducing people to Guillemots on a BCNR thread but there you go, glad you enjoyed it!
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Snow Globes, Jesus Christ, I can’t think of the last time a song eviscerated me like that. That might be the most affecting use of drums I’ve ever heard.
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Oh I’ve heard them before just not that track
Was watching them cover “Forget You” with Black Midi and violinist Georgia on vocals last night and grinning a lot:
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Finally had a listen to the new album
Thoughts:
It’s fine.
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The last 4 minutes of Basketball Shoes are pretty good, but I can take or leave the 54 minutes leading up to it
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Probably my favourite post on this website. Well, top 8.
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Beaming at this
I don’t agree but I liked this pithy take
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Also finally got round to listening to the BCNR record today and enjoyed it very much, possibly because it reminded me of being in my 20s and listening to a lot of Canadian indie bands made up predominantly of members of Arcade Fire and Broken Social Scene.
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Damn i hope Isaac can carry on recording music in some way. His personality and lyrics are such a big part of what makes this great
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I have listened through the album once on Spotify but waiting for the vinyl to take a deep dive. I have this strange sense as an early millennial ( with Gen X sympathies) to be quite protective of them even if elements can feel a little ‘cringe’ or naive. These zoomers deserve the benefit of the doubt as they clearly have talent with some lovely hooks. I want to cheer them on to carry on with the next chapter in their musical journey(s).
Maybe that’s just what happens when you get old.
Hes done some solo stuff in the past so fingers crossed
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It’s interesting that the ‘storyline’ of the first album appears to be about the formation of the band - building ‘a new road out of Black Country ground’ (after their previous singer was outed as a predator). That album concludes with him saying that since he’s got nothing else to say, this thing they’ve built will have to burn to the ground.
So anyway, I take the Concorde metaphor that runs throughout AFUH to be about the absurd financial infeasibility of the band - which I’d imagine was tenfold thanks to the pandemic - and the breakup it all seems to be alluding to is (I think) about him leaving.
This might be really obvious or I might be really wrong - but I favour this interpretation mainly because it might mean that he’s willing to make music again without the myriad difficulties of aligning 7 different calendars for no money.
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