After losing their lead vocalist on the eve of a critically-acclaimed second record, Black Country, New Road emerged with a live album of new material pieced together and tested on the road; the show must go on and all that. The band have ditched much of the postmodern, hyper-referential songwriting on their earlier work in favour of fairy tales, half-remembered dreams and anthropomorphic animals.
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Even from a cursory listen, it’s quite obvious that Ants From Up There is a different record than its predecessor. Much of the album was written in the studio, with each of the band’s seven members contributing ideas and democratically building the finished product. That difference in process is evident.
