These disparate styles are turned into music that is exuberantly fresh and youthful, the product of what the band say is a seamless and democratic creative process. “If you’re listening to us, you’ve probably heard Slint and I think it’s funny to take the piss out of yourself.” Elsewhere, on Track X, they take a pulse reminiscent of Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians and allow it to blossom into the album’s most sweetly melodic and poignant moment. Their idiosyncratic post-genre concoction is evocative of post-rock outfits such as Slint, Tortoise and Robocobra Quartet in fact, the Slint comparisons have been so frequent that Wood worked them into his droll self-mocking lyrics, referring to BC,NR as “the world’s second-best Slint tribute act”. “I’m excited it’s coming out but also happy to put a mark in the road,” says Wood. Their debut album, For the First Time, is a succinct six tracks that capture an era they call phase one, as they already begin to move into new terrain it’s tricky keeping them on track to speak about this album instead of the next one. There are six other voices, so why ignore them? Lewis Evans Hyde agrees: “I had no choice but to carry on making something with these people – I’m so emotionally and musically connected to them.” The ability to let go is really important in a seven-person band. “We were struggling and fragile but the new group represented something very important.” “Things were intense and emotionally difficult,” he says.
They reassembled without him, guitarist Isaac Wood stepping in as singer.
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“We didn’t even get any free cans.”īC,NR formed when their previous band, Nervous Conditions, ended abruptly after their singer was accused of sexual assault (he apologised, and said the accusations “fill me with sadness and horror, as they don’t fit with my memory”). “We were a bit peeved they didn’t let us know,” says Evans. They even have unofficial merch to keep an eye on: a sour IPA by the Cheltenham brewery DEYA called I Am Locked Away in a High-Tech, Wraparound, Translucent, Blue-Tinted Fortress, named after the lyrics from Sunglasses. Pre-lockdown saw sellout tours on the back of two 7in singles – Athens France and Sunglasses – both of which go for daft money on Discogs. From Cambridgeshire, they formed in 2018 when barely in their 20s, and quickly whipped up a fervent following.
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