Live at Bush Hall
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Based on 6 reviews
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Ninja Tune / Label
Jordan Hayward / Producer
blackcountrynewroad.com / Website
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CRITIC REVIEWS
100
The six-piece’s first new material without frontman Isaac Wood, recorded over three nights in London, proves their malleability and resilience.
90
Having built upon their strengths and grown together throughout their collaboration, Live at Bush Hall shows Black Country, New Road musically at their very best, and truly cements them as one of the greats of our generation.
80
Following the departure of a key member, the Londoners had to find a way forward. This live album proves a celebratory reintroduction.
80
It’s only after the maelstrom (here and on a majority of the other songs – BCNR ending on a chaotic flourish is a characteristic that has endured), as the audience cheers once again, that you’re reminded that this is a live album, beautifully recorded and produced as it is, and, more to the point, perfectly performed.
80
‘Live At Bush Hall’ is enough to get any fan excited for Black Country, New Road’s new chapter. Their new music in its purest form shows that despite unexpected changes, the band’s resilience is stronger than ever.
76
Over a three-night stand in London last December, the UK group evolved from rousing post-punks to an irreverent dinner-theater act. Yet the soundtrack of all-new songs feels like a natural evolution.
Fishmans getting #1 album of the year with a live album: W Rizz
BCNR getting #1 album of the year with a live album: Sexual Harassment
pizza time 🍕
If you’ve been reading my content for a while, or just keeping up with new music in general, Black Country, New Road needs no introduction. They started creating buzz in 2019 with merely two singles and a reputation for excellent live shows, most notably from The Windmill in Brixton. That led to the band catching further attention with their explosive debut, “For the First Time” - an impressive and ferocious post-punk album that I loved since I first heard it ... read more
Turbines song of the year and it's not close. Original review from video version below. 50 likes on this = Pulse Demon review :) (edit: here's the pulse demon review https://www.albumoftheyear.org/user/theumbranhanmer/album/61725-pulse-demon/ :D)
I genuinely don’t know what to say.
Ever since around last October or so, I’ve been hearing bits and pieces of this new material they’ve been testing out on their tour with Black Midi. The only tracks I had heard up to this point ... read more
BCNR return to give us some new material they've been working on. As an album, it actually fits surprisingly well and out-did my expectations for it, given Isaac's disbandment. The live gig-setting does a lot of these songs justice sonically and composition-wise, as their is a more paced and energetic banger-esc appreach to a chunk of the tracklist. For more somber and quiet tracks like Turbines/Pigs (banger), Bush Hall's acoustics and PA help isolate May's and Lewis' moments of sheer emotion.
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Track List
| 1 | Up Song 4:20 | 92 |
| 2 | The Boy 6:16 | 89 |
| 3 | I Won’t Always Love You 4:10 | 91 |
| 4 | Across The Pond Friend 3:45 | 88 |
| 5 | Laughing Song 5:33 | 92 |
| 6 | The Wrong Trousers 4:06 | 84 |
| 7 | Turbines/Pigs 9:46 | 95 |
| 8 | Dancers 5:04 | 93 |
| 9 | Up Song (Reprise) 3:55 | 89 |
Total Length: 47 minutes
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15h
Still doesn’t feel real that they ACTUALLY released this masterpiece. This is all I could have asked for and more. This record is the most beautiful record I have heard in recent memory.
21h
It's an incredible work and an ode to friendship, heroically released after the departure of their frontman in 2022. To create 9 new tracks and reboot the band with three new singers (inhouse, ofcourse) is a kind of unreal achievement. I'm impressed! Let me shake your hands, guys 🤝
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Added on: February 27, 2023