Following their wildly successful debut album For the first time released this past February, UK seven-piece Black Country, New Road are continuing to seek critical acclaim with their upcoming sophomore album Ants From Up There, set for release on February 2, 2022. Leading the way is their collossal new single “Chaos Space Marine”, which has the band once again using their full-sized lineup to create textured and art-rock heavy indie music.
“[It is] the best song we’ve ever written“, frontman Isaac Wood shares. “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.”
Violin, piano, percussion, and a woodwind section come together for a flurry of music and triumph, in line with acts such as Arcade Fire and Squid.
Listen below:
Tour dates:
22/10/2021 – Rotondes, Luxembourg
23/10/2021 – Bumann & Sohn, Cologne – DE (SOLD OUT)
24/10/2021 – Botanique Orangerie, Belgium – BE (SOLD OUT)
25/10/2021 – Le Trabendo, Paris – FR
27/10/2021 – Le Grand Mix, Tourcoing – FR
28/10/2021 – Lieu Unique, Nantes – FR
29/10/2021 – Rockschool Barbey, Bordeaux – FR
1/11/2021 – Teatro Duse, Bologna – IT
2/11/2021 – Auditorium Della Mole, Ancona – IT
05/11/2021 – Circolo della Musica, Turin – IT
06/11/2021 – Bogen F, Zürich – CH (SOLD OUT)
08/11/2021 – Underdogs’, Prague – CZ (SOLD OUT)
09/11/2021 – Frannz Club, Berlin – DE (SOLD OUT)
10/11/2021 – Hydrozagadka, Warsaw – PL (SOLD OUT)
11/11/2021 – Transcentury Update Warm Up @ UT Connewitz Leipzig – DE
12/11/2021 – Bahnhof Pauli, Hamburg – DE
14/11/2021 – Le Guess Who? Festival, Utrecht – NL
16/11/2021 – Paradiso Noord, Amsterdam – NL (SOLD OUT)
20/11/2021 – Super Bock En Stock, Lisbon – PT
21/11/2021 – ZDB, Lisbon – PT (SOLD OUT)
29/11/2021 – Chalk, Brighton – UK (SOLD OUT) *
30/11/2021 – Junction 1, Cambridge – UK (SOLD OUT) *
01/12/2021 – 1865, Southampton – UK *
03/12/2021 – Arts Club, Liverpool – UK (SOLD OUT) *
04/12/2021 – Irish Centre, Leeds – UK (SOLD OUT) *
06/12/2021 – O2 Ritz Manchester, Manchester – UK * (SOLD OUT)
07/12/2021 – Newcastle University Student Union, Newcastle Upon Tyne – UK *
08/12/2021 – SWG3, Glasgow – UK *
09/12/2021 – The Mill, Birmingham – UK * (SOLD OUT)
10/12/2021 – The Waterfront, Norwich – UK *
12/12/2021 – Marble Factory, Bristol – UK (SOLD OUT) *
13/12/2021 – Y Plas, Cardiff – UK *
15/12/2021 – Whelan’s, Dublin – IE (SOLD OUT) *
08/02/2022 – Roundhouse, London – UK
18/02/2022 – DC9 Nightclub, Washington, DC – US (SOLD OUT)
19/02/2022 – The Sinclair, Cambridge, MA – US (SOLD OUT)
22/02/2022 – Sultan Room, Turk’s Inn, Brooklyn, NY – US (SOLD OUT)
23/02/2022 – Elsewhere, Brooklyn, NY – US
25/02/2022 – Johnny Brenda’s, Philadelphia, PA – US (SOLD OUT)
26/02/2022 – Bar Le Ritz, Montreal, QC – CAN
28/02/2022 – Third Man Records, Detroit, MI – US
01/03/2022 – Lincoln Hall, Chicago, IL – US
03/03/2022 – Barboza, Seattle, WA – US (SOLD OUT)
04/03/2022 – Polaris Hall, Portland, OR – US
05/03/2022 – The Miniplex, Richard’s Goat Tavern, Arcata, CA – US
06/03/2022 – Great American Music Hall, San Francisco, CA – US
08/03/2022 – Zebulon, Los Angeles, CA – US (SOLD OUT)
09/03/2022 – Regent Theater, Los Angeles, CA – US
06/04/2022 – The Foundry, Sheffield – UK
07/04/2022 – O2 Academy, Oxford – UK
09/04/2022 – Liquid Room, Edinburgh – UK
10/04/2022 – The Empire, Belfast – UK
11/04/2022 – 3Olympia, Dublin – IE
13/04/2022 – Albert Hall, Manchester – UK
14/04/2022 – Rock City, Nottingham – UK
16/04/2022 – Concorde 2, Brighton – UK
17/04/2022 – O2 Academy, Bristol – UK
02/06/2022 – Primavera Sound Festival, Barcelona – ES
08/07/2022 – Pohoda Festival, Trencin – SK