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Ants from Up There

The second album, recorded in three weeks at a former abbey.
Black Country, New Road, 2022

Wayne plays drums, Ellery violin, mandolin and cello, Wood vocals and guitar, Evans saxophone and flute, Mark guitar, Kershaw keyboards, marimba and glockenspiel and Hyde bass. "Concorde" was the first song with double-tracked vocals, "Haldern" came from improvisation, and "Snow Globes", first played in January 2020, was a first take. Singles were "Chaos Space Marine", "Bread Song", "Concorde" and "Snow Globes". NME gave it 5 of 5 and called it a future cult classic, Uncut 4.5, the Line of Best Fit 10 of 10 and the New York Times named it a Critic's Pick; Loud and Quiet felt it fell short of the debut. It reached 3 in the UK, 9 in the Netherlands and 10 in Germany, and went Silver with the BPI.

Track listing

  1. Intro0:54
  2. Chaos Space Marine3:36
  3. Concorde6:03
  4. Bread Song6:20
  5. Good Will Hunting4:58
  6. Haldern5:05
  7. Mark's Theme2:47
  8. The Place Where He Inserted the Blade7:13
  9. Snow Globes9:13
  10. Basketball Shoes12:37

More from Black Country, New Road

For The First Time (2021), Forever Howlong (2025)

Sources

  1. Ants from Up There, Wikipedia
  2. Black Country, New Road on Ants from Up There, SPIN (2022-02-08)