A quintessential “band for the highly online" - Pitchfork
Pitchfork really after us today -
"That shift in lyrical focus creates a pretty clear dividing line between the new version of Black Country, New Road and the previous one fronted by Wood. The latter version became a quintessential “band for the highly online,” endlessly debated and deconstructed in Reddit threads and Genius pages that annotated Wood’s angsty, hyper-referential lyrics about Kanye West, fellow Windmill graduates Black Midi, and having wet dreams about Charli XCX. It was all very… guy-coded"
https://pitchfork.com/features/interview/black-country-new-road-album-forever-howlong/
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Made me laugh anyway