8.2
Avg Score
17
Opinions
#698
All Time
6
Tracks
“Unprecedented times or not, few will have foreseen that one of the best albums of 2021 would have combined the post-rock of early 90s cult band Slint with klezmer music and harrowing references to Bruce Springsteen and NutriBullets. Thesauruses have been worn out trying to describe this London-via-Cambridge seven-piece’s unholy marriage of intense, long-form guitar work and incandescent saxophone.”
“When experimental rock seven-piece Black Country, New Road first announced their debut album, its tracklist seemed a bit… off. This most expansive and virtuosic of groups, every bit as jaw-dropping live as everyone has told you, were opting to properly introduce themselves with just six tracks, two of which had been released before. Could such a brief, already-familiar statement really do this pro”
“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 ”
“Black Country, New Road remain ferocious, highly considered, and wildly improvised for their debut”
“Rock debuts as daring as For the First Time are a rarity.”
“The London seven-piece arrives with plenty to prove, and they mostly succeed”
“Another album where I have to believe that I’m the issue. There are great moments across it but for the most part I just find it completely dwarfed by Isaac’s later BCNR work Fav song : Sunglasses”
“I get it but at the same time I find it kind of annoying The lead vocalist took it down a notch for me but the music was great”
