Black Country, New Road
★★★★
Ants From Up There
NINJA TUNE. CD/DL/LP
ANYONE AS YET undecided about Black Country, New Road would have to concede that the Cambridgeshire post-rock/jazz explorers have triumphed in extraordinarily adverse circumstances.
To wit: their initial lifespan as Nervous Conditions was cut short by their original singer’s online ‘cancellation’. Then, once they’d embarked upon their ‘new road’ with guitarist Isaac Wood stepping up to the mike unplanned, their excellent debut For The First Time dropped in January 2021, depriving them of the missionary touring that ordinarily would have ensued.
This follow-up lands one year later: however hampered by 2021’s restrictions, they’ve not stood idly by. BC,NR were among the first to live-stream a show online, and the audio of that memorable coming-of-age performance at London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall is included in deluxe…
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