Page 463 - Guildhall Coverage Book 2020-21
P. 463
10 February 2021
Black Country, New Road Are
Reshaping Indie-Rock For Our
Disturbing Times
Photo by Maxwell Grainger
A much needed fresh approach for guitar music is happening in the UK right now, freed from
any hit single expectations and conventional genre limitations. With the furious energy of
their debut album "For The First Time" the seven-piece from London is leading this new
movement with stubborn determination. NBHAP author Tamsin Paternoster spoke with the
band and took a closer look at the Black Country, New Road microcosm.
by Tamsin Paternoster
In a time when … well, time itself appears to be quite relative something so irrelevant
as the word ‘hype’ seems to be out of place. Are we still living in a world where
hypes in music still exist or do they belong in a glorified past where music media was
still an opinion leader position, musical tates were more separated from each other
and the internet didn’t play such a significant role? Some of the older ones will still
