Yo, Isaac, if you ever read this, thank you very much, man. Your voice and your lyrics have made me feel seen in a way that I didn't know I needed. You've given a voice to the despair and awkward defiance that seem to define what it is to be young in the 21st century. Please please be well. To the rest of you: thank you for this album. It's unhinged, wild, romantic, and beautiful. Despite the shitty news this week I'm very excited about your future as a band.
2:48 that vocal melody is just beautiful and so perfectly delivered ("tryna get home to you"). I had to run it back several times the first time I heard it
@@S728-u9x 6/8 * and there's a lot of rhythm fuckery in this song (and record), like the beginning of Basketball Shoes that's in 4/4 but has this weird syncopated feeling to it. The weird change from 6/8 to 4/4 is a nice touch too
This song is blowing me away. The country influence is bonkers in the best way of possible. Isaac's vocals are impactful and are "improving". He can hold notes a little sharper and distinct. You will be missed isaac, but the poetry you offered at this time was breath taking. Feel well. And to the rest of the 6. You guys are going to be something really. You all have really honed your craft. Thank yall so much
You walk up on the raised edge, hands out for balance Slip and you almost grab mine but you find your feet And I never wanted so much someone to fall It's just been a weekend but in my mind We summer in France with our genius daughters now And you teach me to play the piano You call I'll be there What's more I'm scared of the phone Don't ring it Please know That I'm just trying to find Some way to keep me in your mind And later on Everyone will say "It was cool" "She had Billie Eilish style" "Moving to Berlin for a little while" "Trying to find something to hold on to" Never texts me nothing but she wants to Tell me she's not that hard to find And "Message me if you change your mind" Darling, I'll keep fine And if we're on a burning starship The escape pods filled with your friends, your childhood film photos There's no room for me to go Oh, I'd wait there, float with the wreckage, fashion a long sword Traverse the milky way trying to get home to you And you bring some piece of the stars You call I'll be there What's more I'm scared of the phone Don't ring it Please know That I'm just trying to find Some way to keep me in your mind And later on Everyone will say "It was cool" "She had Billie Eilish style" "Moving to Berlin for a little while" "Trying to find something to hold on to" Never texts me nothing but she wants to Tell me she's not that hard to find And "Message me if you change your mind" Darling, I'll keep fine Everyone will say "It was cool" "She had Billie Eilish Style" "Moving to Berlin for a little while" "Trying to find something to hold on to" Never texts me nothing but she wants to Tell me she's not that hard to find And "Message me if you change your mind" Darling, I'll keep fine
This song is an earworm and listening to this album just makes me wish Isaac feels better soon, dude is too talented to not be making music with the rest of the band.
He’s not coming back, he’s depressed and doesn’t want to deal with being a star in a very successful band I get it unfortunately. I was a huge fan of the first album but this album just has so much more instrumentation and emotional reverence
This is an awesome rock song. It’s one of BCNR’s least ambitious, most by-the-books songs, but it’s executed perfectly, adding a new layer with every verse, gently weaving from longing to anguish through each chorus. It’s the first BCNR song I heard on Spotify, but when I heard it, I had to step aside, and listen to it a few more times, giving it my complete focus. I think it’s BCNR at their best.
You walk up on the raised edge Your hands are out for balance You slip and you almost grab mine, but you find your feet And I never wanted so much someone to fall It's just been a weekend But in my mind we summer in France With our genius daughters now And you teach me to play the piano You call I'll be there What's more? I'm scared of The phone Don't ring it Please know That I'm just trying to find Some way to keep me in your mind And later on Everyone will say "it was cool" "She had Billie Eilish style" "Moving to Berlin for a little while" "Tryna find something to hold on to" "Never texts me nothing But she wants to tell me She's not that hard to find" And "message me if you change your mind" Darling, I'll keep fine And if we're on a burning starship The escape pods filled with your friends, your childhood film photos There's no room for me to go Oh, I'd wait there, float with the wreckage Fashion a long sword Traverse the Milky Way Tryna get home to you And you bring some piece of the stars You call I'll be there What's more? I'm scared of The phone Don't ring it Please know That I'm just trying to find Some way to keep me in your mind And later on Everyone will say "it was cool" "She had Billie Eilish style" "Moving to Berlin for a little while" "Tryna find something to hold on to" "Never texts me nothing But she wants to tell me She's not that hard to find" And "message me if you change your mind" Darling, I'll keep fine Everyone will say "it was cool" Aw, "She had Billie Eilish style" "Moving to Berlin for a little while" "Tryna find something to hold on to" "Never texts me nothing But she wants to tell me She's not that hard to find" And "message me if you change your mind" Darling, I'll keep fine. ~~~
Issac's voice is literally sooo beautiful to listen to you have no idea, I hear everything in his voice now and its so hypnotic and I never wanna unhear his voice
Holy shit A definitive work - BC,NR owning the landscape they create with each song. What a stunning album. I salute and thank you all for this and hope that you Isaac, find peace.
i really love it too!!! i was looking for someone who thought the same as me lol. also thanks because i didn’t know how to call that sound before reading your comment haha
This album leaves me speechless. Absolutely like nothing I've ever heard before. It's melancholy and bittersweet. One of my favorites, and most definitely gonna get nominated for best album of the year.
This light is exact and it’s poignancy brilliant, staring down the least gestures of boredom (where they sang emptiness is the beginning of all things);
I've been after this girl for a year who madeout with me a bunch under the stars at the end of the first day we met and never messaged me again who looks like billie eilish and she said she'd teach me classical piano, we spoke of France since I was supposed to go on exchange there before covid happened and she's almost fluent. Hearing this for the first time today is touching, and finding out the man who wrote it left the band. Heartbreaking. Why abandon this album and song? Good will hunting...
when you actually think about it, quite a few of the song titles on this album don't really make any sense. I mean, what part of basketball shoes was vaguely about basketball shoes? and who the fuck is mark?
Black Country, New Road’s Perilous Triumph The British band’s second album, “Ants From Up There,” arrived days after its primary lyricist, Isaac Wood, announced his departure from the group. On Jan. 31, four days before the British band Black Country, New Road released its second album, “Ants From Up There,” its vocalist and lead guitarist, Isaac Wood, suddenly announced he was leaving the group, with a statement suggesting mental health struggles. “I have been feeling sad and afraid too,” Wood announced via social media. “I have tried to make this not true but it is the kind of sad and afraid feeling that makes it hard to play guitar and sing at the same time.” The band canceled a planned tour. Its remaining members have said they will not perform the material written collectively with Wood, but that they would continue making music together, adding, “We’ve already started working on it.” But the next version of Black Country, New Road can’t help but become a very different band without Wood’s songwriting, lyrics and vocals. On both of its albums, Wood is the band’s frazzled-sounding, acutely self-conscious focal point. There’s usually an anxious quaver in his baritone, and when he raises his voice he reaches a throat-scraping desperation. As the band’s main lyricist, Wood juggles the cryptic and the apparently confessional, the self-lacerating and the absurd. He can sound absolutely tormented; he can also sound like he’s having a bitter laugh at some private joke. Black Country, New Road released its first singles in 2019, arriving alongside a coterie of virtuosic, genre-scrambling bands including black midi (the two bands have occasionally merged onstage as Black Midi, New Road) and Squid. On its albums, Black Country, New Road is a seven-piece band. Its musical core is the riffy, dissonant drive of post-punk; in “Science Fair,” an early single, Wood refers to being in a band that’s “the world’s second-best Slint tribute act.” But with a lineup that includes saxophone and violin, the band’s tentacles also extend into klezmer, British folk, prog-rock, Minimalism, free jazz and more. Its songs flaunt wayward, episodic structures, rarely ending up remotely near where they began; they sound as if anyone in the group might grab the wheel at any moment. -- Electric guitars, bristling or smoldering, largely defined the band’s 2021 debut album, “For the First Time”; harking back to the post-punk of Slint and the Fall, Wood talk-sang through many of the songs. On “Ants From Up There,” he usually turns to melody instead, while the band toys with chamber-pop and more pastoral sounds. It dials back the guitar distortion and drumbeats and brings acoustic instruments into the foreground; it invokes folk-rock, parlor songs and waltzes. The new songs are still plaints and puzzles, just quieter ones (at least most of the time). “Chaos Space Marine” opens with something like a traditional fiddle tune, pausing for flourishes by individual players: trills, plinks, hoots, quick runs. Wood sings, dramatically but obliquely, about war, sailing, “becoming a worm” and coming home. The band could be a pit orchestra for a surreal operetta, dropping into a stately half time for a finale that concludes with Wood declaiming, “Billie Eilish style/Concorde will fly/Ignore the hole I’ve dug again.” Those verbal nuggets recur, equally enigmatically, in other songs on the album. An abject love song, “Haldern,” begins with “Ignore the hole I’ve dug again” and goes on, through rippling Minimalist patterns, a wrenching crescendo and a final, brittle thinning out, to praise “the only one I’ve known/Who broke the world so quietly.” There’s a waltz called “Concorde” that addresses someone named Concorde as a lifelong companion, lover or apparition. And the album’s closer, “Basketball Shoes,” open with Wood singing, “Concorde flies in my room/Tears the house to shreds.” Stretching past 12 minutes, “Basketball Shoes” moves through elegy, march, a quasi-jig, near-stillness, giant tolling unisons and a finale that’s equal parts triumph and despair; it also tucks in the musical motif that started the album in “Intro.” Throughout “Ants From Up Here,” and through the course of every song, Black Country, New Road tests and reinvents itself, creating music that sounds both intricately plotted and precarious. Just how precarious wasn’t clear until Wood left the band. Black Country, New Road “Ants From Up There” (Ninja Tune)
I know this is an unpopular opinion, but for me, this is easily the most hard-hitting and emotionally resonant song on the album. The "message me if you change your mind" lyric destroys me every single time.
Issac please get better first and then return to your band mates bc I really think this is band is on the verge or something huge. Bon iver, arcade Fire, radiohead. You guys are an album or 2 away from that type of transforming material. The next great artist of the 2020s
@@AgenteWasla I definitely hear Arcade Fire throughout the album but I was specifically talking about the guitar melody/riff and drums here. The two songs are different enough that it’s not quite the same but are eerily similar. Go to Singers or Song Islands vol 2 to hear it
A mix of Mogwai with Arcade Fire .Hmmmmm mixed feelings .Both interesting and boring at the same time . Can't decide.The singer's vocals aren't as good as Win Butler's.Seems like he's drowning while singing
You walk up on the raised edge Hands out for balance Slip and you almost grab mine, but you find your feet And I never wanted so much someone to fall It's just been a weekend But in my mind we summer in France With our genius daughters now And you teach me to play the piano You call I'll be there What's more? I'm scared of The phone Don't ring it Please know That I'm just trying to find Some way to keep me in your mind And later on Everyone will say "it was cool" "She had Billie Eilish style" "Moving to Berlin for a little while" "Tryna find something to hold on to" "Never texts me nothing But she wants to tell me She's not that hard to find" And "message me if you change your mind" Darling, I'll keep fine And if we're on a burning starship The escape pods filled with your friends, your childhood film photos There's no room for me to go Oh, I'd wait there, float with the wreckage Fashion a long sword Traverse the Milky Way Tryna get home to you And you bring some piece of the stars You call I'll be there What's more? I'm scared of The phone Don't ring it Please know That I'm just trying to find Some way to keep me in your mind And later on Everyone will say "it was cool" "She had Billie Eilish style" "Moving to Berlin for a little while" "Tryna find something to hold on to" "Never texts me nothing But she wants to tell me She's not that hard to find" And "message me if you change your mind" Darling, I'll keep fine Everyone will say "it was cool" Aw, "She had Billie Eilish style" "Moving to Berlin for a little while" "Tryna find something to hold on to" "Never texts me nothing But she wants to tell me She's not that hard to find" And "message me if you change your mind" Darling, I'll keep fine
