Album Info Hide Show Artist: Black Country, New Road Album: Ants From Up There Released: UK & Europe, 2022 Tracklist: Ants From Up There A1 Intro A2 Chaos Space Marine A3 Concorde A4 Bread Song B1 Good Will Hunting B2 Haldern B3 Mark’s Theme C1 The Place Where He Inserted The Blade C2 Snow Globes D Basketball Shoes Live From The Queen Elizabeth Hall E1 Mark’s Theme E2 Instrumental E3 Athens France F1 Science Fair F2 Sunglasses G1 Track X G2 Opus G3 Bread Song H Basketball Shoes Info About Buying Vinyl From Our Record Store We are a small independent record store located at 211 High St, Preston in Melbourne, Australia (North of Northcote, between Thornbury & Reservoir) We buy and sell new and used vinyl records – if you have a collection you’d like to sell please click here . We ship Australia wide for a flat rate of $10 for standard shipping or $15 for express post. Free Shipping for orders $150 and over. 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If you experience any problems with your order contact us so we can rectify the situation. If the record arrives damaged or doesn’t arrive we will cover the cost of replacing or returning the record. If you change your mind you have 30 days to return your record but you must cover the cost of returning it to the store. You can contact our Melbourne record shop at (03) 9939 3807 or at [email protected] Happy Listening! Description Hide Show Black Country, New Roads second album feels like lightning caught in a jar. Ants From Up There landed in February 2022, just days after singer and guitarist Isaac Wood announced he was leaving the band, and that timing gave the whole thing a strange, tender weight. You hear a group pushing toward something grand and communal, then watch the door quietly close behind them. It is a heartbreak record that somehow refuses to wallow, and it has already settled into modern-classic territory. Where their debut had the wiry edge of the Windmill scene, this one opens out into chamber pop and post-rock, lush without losing its nerve. The seven members knit violin, saxophone, piano and guitar into arrangements that swell and fall like a tide. Georgia Ellerys violin and Lewis Evans sax dont just decorate the songs, they carry the melodic spine. Tyler Hydes bass and Charlie Waynes drumming add spring and drama, while May Kershaw and Luke Mark round out a set of players who sound like they know when to step forward and when to leave space. It is a big-hearted record, but the intimacy never disappears. Chaos Space Marine bursts out of the gate with a show tune grin and a tangle of key changes that never feel showy, just excited. Concorde glides in close behind, all hush and ache, the vocal pulling you in on little details while the band lets air in around the edges. Bread Song might be the one that gets under your skin if you like music that whispers then bruises. The room noise, the held breaths, the way the chords refuse the obvious resolution, it all serves the lyrics quiet devastation. Midway through, Haldern and Marks Theme act like exhale moments, little palette cleansers before the back halfs emotional run. Then come two undeniable centrepieces. The Place Where He Inserted the Blade starts like a modest indie lament and swells into something close to a group sing, a knot-in-the-throat thing that would have toppled a lesser band. Snow Globes rides Waynes blizzard of drums, a rolling storm that keeps building while the vocal stays plain and clear. It is a neat trick, beauty and chaos side by side, and it works because the performances are locked in. Closer Basketball Shoes is the long goodbye, a multi-part suite fans had chased in live recordings for years that finally arrives in full colour. Its patient, it aches, and it lands. The reception matched the ambition. Critics lined up with raves, from five-star reviews in the Guardian and NME to Best New Music at Pitchfork, and the album shot into the UK top five on release. For a band that had just lost its frontman, that success felt like a shared vote of confidence in the songs themselves. The group shifted gears soon after, writing fresh material for shows rather than playing this record without Wood, which only deepened the sense that Ants From Up There exists as a sealed little world. If you collect, this is a must on the shelf. The dynamic swings and roomy arrangements shine on Black Country, New Road vinyl, and Ants From Up There vinyl in particular rewards a proper sit-down listen. Piano and strings breathe, cymbals bloom, the low end feels warm rather than woolly. Ive spun a copy side by side with a stream and there is a real lift in presence. If you like to buy Black Country, New Road records online, it is not a hard one to track down, though clean early pressings tend to vanish fast whenever the bands name pops back up in the news. Keep an eye on your local if you are in the hunt for Black Country, New Road albums on vinyl. In vinyl records Australia circles, the chatter never really stopped, and I still see copies disappear in a Melbourne record store before lunch on weekends. Part of the pull is the story, sure, but the bigger part is simple. This is a generous album that meets you where you are. It can be the loud, brave thing you blast in the car, or the late-night record that leaves you staring at the ceiling. It carries the scars of a band in transition and turns them into something communal. Two years on, it still feels like a friend pulling up a chair. Product Reviews Hide Show Write a Review