Friday, August 15, 2025

It Starts With a Birthstone 200 Albums For 2025 # 137 Black Country, New Road -Forever Howling

 


For the most point I write about things that I like on here. I try to keep on a positive road as I've heard that it should rise wuth you and I'm not particularly interested in railing against things I don't really care for. But I'm also interested in listening exrcerses. To try to understand why something that has gathered traction and gained currency does little for me. It's a confusing world. 

Black Country, New Road are a case in point. New album Forever Howling sounds to me like one of the primary school concerts I remember from back in the Seventues. Children armed wuth xylophones, triangles and kazoos howling into the hallspace for all they're worth,

It strikes me as an incredibly contrived album. A self conscious attempt to produced Outsider Music of the sort record collecters babble over . The Shaggs. Space Lady. Langley Schools Music Project. Yet self consciously odd and arty. And as such for me the centre cannot hold. You can't force this form of expression Oh well. Back to something I can get behind tomorrow, 

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