Name: Ants From Up There
Brand: Black Country, New Road

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CD-ZEN-278X

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Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

Deluxe Box Set with 4 Art Prints, Black Paper Inner Sleeves and 22 Page Lyric Booklet and Sticker.

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2022-02-04

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

5054429153743

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2 / CD / Extended format: Yes / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

CD-ZEN-278

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In Gatefold Sleeve, Black Paper Inner Sleeve, 20 Page Lyric Booklet and Sticker

5054429151435

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

LP-ZEN-278LE

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blue

Blue Marbled Vinyl

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Indie Exclusive. Negative Effect Artworked Gatefold Sleeve, White Paper Inner Sleeves and Booklet

Signed copies: Yes

5054429153323

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2 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: Yes / blue

LP-ZEN-278C

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5054429153040

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2 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / blue

LP-ZEN-278

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black

Housed in an Artworked Gatefold Sleeve, Black Paper Inner Sleeves and 20 Page Lyric Booklet

5054429151428

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2 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Black Country, New Road

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Ninja Tune

Black Country, New Road return with their second album Ants From Up There. Following on almost exactly a year to the day from the release of their acclaimed debut For the first time, the band have harnessed the momentum from that record and run full pelt into their second, with Ants From Up There managing to strike a skillful balance between feeling like a bold stylistic overhaul of what came before, as well as a natural progression.

Released alongside the announcement, the band (Lewis Evans, May Kershaw, Charlie Wayne, Luke Mark, Isaac Wood, Tyler Hyde and Georgia Ellery) have also shared the first single from the album, ‘Chaos Space Marine’, a track that has already become a live favorite with fans since its first public airings earlier this year - combining sprightly violin, rhythmic piano, and stabs of saxophone to create something infectiously fluid that builds to a rousing crescendo. It’s a track that frontman Isaac Wood calls “the best song we’ve ever written.” It’s a chaotic yet coherent creation that ricochets around unpredictably but also seamlessly. “We threw in every idea anyone had with that song,” says Wood. “So the making of it was a really fast, whimsical approach - like throwing all the shit at the wall and just letting everything stick.” 

On For the first time the band melded klezmer, post-rock, indie and an often intense spoken word delivery. On Ants From Up There they have expanded on this unique concoction to create a singular sonic middle ground that traverses classical minimalism, indie-folk, pop, alt rock and a distinct tone that is already unique to the band.

Recorded at Chale Abbey Studios, Isle Of Wight, across the summer with the band’s long-term live engineer Sergio Maschetzko, it’s also an album that comes loaded with a deep-rooted conviction in the end result. “We were just so hyped the whole time,” says Hyde. “It was such a pleasure to make. I've kind of accepted that this might be the best thing that I'm ever part of for the rest of my life. And that's fine.”