Black Country, New Road - Sunglasses 

i like my vocalists to sound like they're standing on a windowsill yelling at a police negotiator

Mfs really just stole a bunch of SD cards from lost and found cameras and made a slideshow Absolute madmen

THE ABSOLUTE PINNACLE, OF BRITISH ENGINEERING. Seriously.

"I'm modern Scott Walker I'm a surprisingly smooth talker And I am invincible in these sunglasses"

I wonder what people think when they see me driving on the highway having an absolute mental breakdown to this song.

Walter white falling down gif

I love it when music melts into insanity

Take it easy isaac. Thank you

that classic postpunk vocals and the slint-meets-ornette coleman instrumental send me shivers

Not to be dramatic but I will literally promise you my firstborn child in exchange for an album

I love how the music feels like a human mind collapsing and reconstructing itself. Like at the beginning it seems normal, but a bit shaky with the vocals and the smooth and comforting jazz. Then the saxes seem to become distorted until fully collapsing along with the vocals. Then afterwards things seem to come back to normal, but the sunglasses hide the shell of a human wearing them, who seems to be fully confident, but in reality is barely able to move forward. At least that's my tale on the song.

im so excited for what this band does next

I’ll always remember where I was the first time I heard this. Arguably one of the greatest songs of the 21st century.

my boyfriend introduced me to this song and it makes me so emotional when i hear it for some reason. it sounds like what it feels like to experience life, how it feels to lose control, to be desperate. i will always hold onto this song.

5:56 holy fuck, every time it kicks in I lose my mind.

I heard this yesterday on the BBC Radio1 Rock Show and hot damn I am glad I wrote it down. This band is the absolute pinnacle of British sound engineering.

this is the closest thing to what I could define as "Modern" Slint. Spiderland is a masterpiece yeah, but the strong influences of darkwave, grunge and a hint of jazz make them REALLY stand out. Look out for these guys, they are about to drop one of those cult classic album

this song sounds like a beautiful relationship that slowly deteriorates until they lose interest, they both cheat on each other and someone gets murdered. only way i can describe

Black Country new road symbolizes mood swings

Love this song, the first version of this track will always hold a special place in my heart. Plus, the video is great. It feels like all the pictures that were shown weren’t supposed to be taken or shown to public, it feels like they were pulled off of a family photos folder or “recently deleted”

Glad i could get here before the 10/10 album was dropped

Even now this song still stacks up with AFUT/Bush Hall and the best songs they're released. Such an astounding song that takes my breath away to this day

I live far out in the countryside and today I had such a blast listening to this strutting down my street's narrow dirt road, looking at the sheep like 'hell yeah, I am invincible in these sunglasses.'

been really happy i found the label speedy wunderground lately. they have been out so much exciting new music lately, black midi, squid, black country new road...

This music video is genius LMAOOO Just family photos showing people living a normal life and kind of being mediocre

I remember listening to this song on New Years Eve ("chosing it to be the last song I would be listening to in 2019") and it somehow had a deep, meaningful impact on me... After this really confusing year it brings me to tears almost everytime I'm listening to yet again

This singer really needs a hug.

I'm 45, this is so awesome and I'm so happy there are still "kids" who are my kind of weird. Longtime fan of The Pixies salutes you!

this song is literally changing my life

Farewell Isac

They will always be legends in my music duo for holding that diminished chord for a whole transcendent minute!

listen i love both versions but i just love screaming along to isaacs vocals on this one, they're so good

My cat was rubbing her head on my phones speaker as I played this and as I grabbed my phone she literally clenched it with her paws and continued to rub her head on it and bite the corner of the case. This is the greatest music we have both ever heard. Thank u

Even though the sounds in this song have been done before, it's still strange and unique, which goes to show how versatile post-punk can be.

This is the most exciting thing I’ve heard in a long time. What a song.

hands down best version

I haven't been this excited about a new band in a loooonnnggg while

another classic, i love how the song completely deteriorates around 3:20

why did this make my skin crawl from nostaglia

LEAVE KANYE OUT OF THIS

The skewed minion at 3:21 matching with the music made me laugh inside.

I cannot stop listening to this

I love this video montage of holiday pics. I try to watch it between 7-12 times a week to save me the troubles of ever having to look at Facebook.

God blessed us following 80s onwards harder/punk style music with 2010s post punk. This is the absolute pinnacle. For decades this song, hopefully for a longer time, will be studied and influence artists.

My college essay was inspired by this song

INTRODUCTION Black Country, New Road (henceforth abbreviated as ‘BCNR’) is an English band whose song Sunglasses was released in 2019. The music video for Sunglasses features a slideshow of stills from amateur GoPro footage originally posted on the online video platform RU-vid (Wayne). The stills show moments from sports events, concerts, parties, family and, leisure activities (see fig. 2-6). The recording of these moments is enabled by the GoPro camera’s characteristics: small, sturdy, affordable, and attachable to a wide variety of objects such as selfie-sticks, instruments helmets, vehicles, etc. Every image is framed in a black-and-white frame, which gives the images a uniform character-also, the images in the video alternate at a fast pace at an interspersed speed. The uniform characteristic in combination with the multiplicity of content is where tension arises: even though the content of the pictures includes a diversity of supposedly exciting moments, Sunglasses’ manner of presenting the images renders them homogenous and interchangeable. Given that the phenomenon of sharing mundane activities on social media is a characteristic of today’s digital era, the music video for Sunglasses poses a cultural critique of technology’s increasing invasiveness. Accordingly, the research question of this thesis is, ‘what are the effects of the GoPro camera on the user’s experience, as represented by BCNR’s music video for Sunglasses?’. In order to answer that question, this thesis will investigate the GoPro company’s dominant discourse in the light of Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle. Debord describes a society where images have become the prime medium of interactions and economy, with alienating results to the individuals. This economy of images has grown into an autonomous reality where relations between people have become relations between images (Debord, pars. 2; 4). A similar phenomenon is arguably happening in today’s digital capitalism with the GoPro acting as the eye - and social media as the architecture of the Spectacle. The manifestation of the society of the Spectacle in the present is not the focus of this thesis. That theme has already been covered to a great extent in the work of Emilie Nunn and, most admirably, in Kane X. Faucher’s Social Capital Online. Instead, the focus of this thesis is to analyse the Spectacle’s effects on individuality and experience. For this analysis, the focus will be laid solely on the music video, and not on the lyrics or music, since that would be out of the thesis’s scope. The thesis states that Sunglasses, in the context of Debord’s Society of the Spectacle, makes apparent the degrading consequences of the commodification of experience in the age of digital capitalism and highlights the individual’s dependence on social peers for social affirmation. This statement is brought forward in a counter-discourse via the Debordian strategy of ‘détournement’: ‘a radical juxtaposition of various elements alienated from their original context for the purpose of critique’ (Trier 70). The first thesis chapter engages in a discourse analysis of Society of the Spectacle and argues that the Spectacle’s dominant discourse transforms the individual into a pseudo-individual. The second chapter takes a socio-technical perspective in its analysis of the GoPro company’s dominant discourse in how they envision their camera to be used in combination with social media. It investigates how social media exercises social power through its architecture of participation, culminating in the commodification of experience. The third chapter analyses how Sunglasses acts as a counter-discourse to the previously established dominant discourse via the critical artistic strategy of détournement. The analysis will pay close attention to the aspect of contingency during the intricate play of forms of representation (film, photography, and stills) with the aid of Marie-Ann Doane’s The Emergence of Cinematic Time and deploy the structuralist method of ‘deconstruction’ to determine the meaning of the artistic strategy.

Freaking awesome. Something refreshingly new. Cannot get enough of this.

Completely blown away by this band. Poetry in music

This is probably my favorite song of the century. Please still play this version at live shows. I like the intro to the album version, but overall this one is just emaculate. You guys didn't need to try to improve upon perfection.

the she sells chemtrails part is the peak of music

The beginning makes me want to cry with all its beauty, then the rest of the song makes me want go cry with all its insanity lol

Sounds like Black Midi and American Football had a child haha. Love this single! I’ll definitely be looking into you all in the future!

I actually cannot express how excited I am for more music

‘I am invincible in these sunglasses I am the Fonz, I am the Jack of Hearts […] I am locked away in a high-tech, wraparound, translucent Blue-tinted fortress, and you cannot fucking touch me […]’ (‘’Sunglasses’’) ‘The spectacle presents itself as something enormously positive, indisputable and inaccessible […]’ (Debord, par. 12)

I love this song, always stuck in my head

Holy shit this may actually be one of my favorite songs of all time

...very, very hard to explain how good it feels with right sunglasses in a British Sun. From România, well done!

i rarely ever experience a song crack me open like an egg thru just the sound. I'm taking a breather for a second and come back to this later. Jeezz

Every picture tells its own story... This is so insane...

This is the only correct version of "Sunglasses".

Damg I remember when I first heard it I thought it would get lost in the yt algorithm but it hasn’t the progress the band has made is amazing

Heard this the other day and was blown away. It reminded me of Escalator over the hill.

Words cannot explain how much I love this song

What a tune...brilliant from start to finish👌

lLrically, these kids could have been very influential during the Britpop era. They are geniuses.

this is just brilliant!

y'all did such a good job

thank you black country, new road

That riff is so 90s, very Smashing Pumpkins

last 3 mins of this song are mad wish i found this earlier. great stuff

Very interested to see where these guys go and what an album could sound like...love the lyrics, vocals, and the drummer is a machine! [not literally]

The progression in this one reminds me of Canterbury scene. Outstanding.

Definitely leave Kanye out of this

this is poetry, please to god will you book more dates so i can try and catch you live at some point, unbelievably talented stuff

This just popped up on my feed and I have to say, I dig it.

Happy to be an early fan of this band before they blow up indefinitely

Blows my mind how much this song changed on the debut. They do some cool things here but the final version is a definite improvement.

Holy SHIT what are the odds I discover you guys a day before your debut album drops I can't fucking wait

Can't even remember when I last liked anything on the 6 Music playlist before they started playing this slice of genius.

heard this song first a couple days ago and just haven't stopped thinking about it - never heard anything like it!

The dramaticism and outragesness from fustration his vocals is great.

This was the first song i heard about you And blown my mind , I knew you were gonna be one of the best bands on planet . And yes you are.

The absolute pinnacle of 2019 music

One of the best singles of the year.

Gang of Four vibes. Love it.

They remind me of the 90s Atlanta band ‘smoke’. Soooo much. Sooo good!

Just found these guys. Holy shit! These guys are gonna blow up.

Can not wait for a full length project

Good times...

this song and this video...sometimes my brain feels just exactly like this song and this video

I so miss this lineup. It was bloody genius. Isaac if you're better get back on it man. It needs you as the personality at the forefront. Music needs you!

This is some really damn good stuff, reminds me of Oxbow a little

Votre musique est MAGNIFIQUE. Je vous adore et j'attends la suite avec impatience. Et j'espère que vous allez tourner, venir en France , en Bretagne.. Très vite.

Damn I've never listened to this version before but it's crazy how much it's changed since then. I definitely prefer the current one, the vocals have more emotional impact but this is really cool

Love, love, love this ...probably perfect

im so glad i discovered this band

The more I'm listening it, the more I love it !

i made a joke to myself while listening to this song that i was gonna make a sandwich and it would still be playing, i came back after finishing it and Isaac was still finishing the "she sells chemtrails" bit.

I keep coming back to this

The English knock it out of the park once more