Hear the latest lifting from the group’s sophomore album Ants From Up There.
As Black Country, New Road continue to ready the release of their keenly-awaited sophomore album, today the British art rock septet have shared their looming project’s fourth preview.
Melancholic and sprawling over its slow-building nine minute runtime, ‘Snow Globes’ has existed and been lauded as a fan favourite within the group’s live repertoire for over a year.
Drummer Charlie Wayne explains of the song,
“‘Snow Globes’ was one of the songs which had existed before we wrote the majority of the songs on AFUT. Though it’s a pretty good representation of the musical world we wanted to explore on the album at large. Rather than writing a song with a number of distinct sections we wanted to see what we could do with one continuous riff. It was a real exploration in trying to create something maximalist whilst limiting ourselves with minimal musical choices.
Because the melodic instruments are all playing the riff in unison, “Snow Globes” left the drums with an interesting opportunity. The drums don’t sit separately from the rest of the band on Snow Globes, but we wanted to use them in a way that we hadn’t in the past. The initial idea was to feel like the drums were recorded for a completely separate track. They were meant to be totally arrhythmic and just sort of bubble below the surface — like at the end of “White Ferrari.” As the song progressed the drums still occupy a slightly different sound world, but because the rest of the band is playing in such a syncopated style, the drums were given a space to disregard rhythm and be completely expressive.”
Hear ‘Snow Globes’ below.
Ants From Up There releases on February 4th via Ninja Tune. Pre-order the album on bronze and blue vinyl variants here.
Words by Sam Wilkinson.
Like this article? Follow us on Facebook and Twitter for more.
Fruit and Grooves Collective 