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Originally published in Print, April 2022. Black Country New Road’s second record Ants From Up There is a difficult album to review. I started by looking at each track, noting what was interesting about them, and then attempted to … Continue reading Ants From Up There by Black Country New Road // Review “As I write, after only a few days from it’s release and after about ten listens, I’m still surprised by it.”
Originally Published in print December 2021 In January 1969, just ten weeks after the release of the vast, maximalist explosion of creativity that was the White Album, the Beatles returned to the studio. There was a definite change in the … Continue reading Let It Be (Super Deluxe) by The Beatles // Review