7.8
Avg Score
18
Opinions
#2,244
All Time
11
Tracks
“Forever Howlong is a messy, human triumph for Black Country, New Road”
“The Cambridge band’s third album rotates among three distinct lead vocalists: Tyler Hyde, May Kershaw, and Georgia Ellery. Each musician brings a separate aesthetic, vocabulary, and emotional compass to the material, allowing every track to fully inhabit its writer’s idiosyncrasies.”
“Life is a grand performance on the new Black Country, New Road album.”
“Black Country, New Road’s first studio album since singer Isaac Wood’s departure in 2022 finds lead vocals now shared between Tyler Hyde, Georgia Ellery and May Kershaw. It’s refreshing that the baroque rock sextet haven’t tried to replicate Wood’s anguished croon and are no longer performing any of those old songs. His absence transforms the band’s disposition, replacing its emotional austerity w”
““Do you wanna play ‘Forever Howlong’?” Georgia Ellery asks on ‘Besties’. When we first heard these lyrics in January, it was just a cheeky nod to the title of Black Country, New Road’s long-awaited third studio album. Without that knowledge, it initially reads more like a childhood game, but in the wake of ‘Besties’ and its mixed reception, it began to sound more like a challenge. Do you dare to l”
“After the exit of their beloved frontman Isaac Wood, the path ahead for Black Country, New Road was not without mystery — full of possibility, yes, but mostly uncertainty, even after releasing an exciting yet uneven live record that gave a glimpse of what could be a year after Wood left. The promise of how they might evolve became impossible to ignore, and it's a promise that calls to mind a parti”
