Fell in love with this album.
Somehow they have a more full and "round" sound than typical post-punk.

Great for watching the city breathe. New York Cares.

favourite fusion record lately

Cool album. Needs focused listening. Not background music.

Eclectic, electric, and new. Well deserved AOTY 2024

Great instrumentation, okay (but dull) melody. The lyrics are not it.

holy shit

in one word: delightful

Essential proto-gaze album, a bit weak on the lyrics front.

the most interesting radiohead album from a guitar perspective

Very well executed album, easy to get into, enjoyable even for people who don't like indie/synthpop. Beautiful melodies with interesting instrumentations; very polished but not over-the-top production, radio-friendly without being shallow.

One of the best records of the 2020s so far.

Amazing album, the first few minutes are the best thing I've heard this year.

I'd love if he sung in English to get the full lyric experience.

I looked it up. Jason Pierce was 32 years old when he wrote this.

It baffles me how someone can experience and *live* so much in such a short amount of time.

Because this album is about Life, capital L. About love, about addiction, about finding one's place, about depression, about heartbreaks and rebounds, about relapse and recovery; it is about what makes us people humans. It truly encompasses everything that defines us, our relations, our feelings, and the incredible diversity in ... read more

I do like BCNR but this feels substantially less creative than their first two albums.

The chorus is an abomination

Very lo-fi production paired with raw, emotional, kind, humane, sometimes naive lyrics.
Nails the "visual songwriting" style, every song feels like a complete, beautiful, detailed oil-on-canvas painting.
As a whole, it feels like a trip down memory line; akin to the experience of meeting an old friend with whom you haven't caught up in a long while.

Sometimes very experimental, which works out wel, with overall interesting songwriting ideas.

It does get repetitive near the end ... read more

I didn't connect very much with the album on the first few listens, but I expect this will grow on me.
It definitely captures the "growing up in the city in the 90s" feeling that it's going for, well.

Nice lyrics, timeless production, excellent music.

The backing guitar's high notes with reverb and overdrive over the slightly detuned, tremolo-heavy lead transport transport you to a dimension that you didn't know existed.

This new kind of rock comes pre-digested and ready to eat, but all is ok because it tastes great.

I used to dislike this album.
It distills the post-rock sounds many of us love into something simpler and easier to understand. That is not a thing that many post-rock musicians would want to happen to them, so BCNR are easy to hate.

I also didn't like Isaac Wood's very british, very pain-filled voice. The album as a whole often seemed pretentious and overdramatic.
But it grew on me, and boy did ... read more

Wow these guys are really good, I hope they make it one day

aw aw it is too long my brain is fried on 60 second shorts !!