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- #1
- Posted: 02/17/2022 21:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#4078): For The First Time
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Today's album of the day
For The First Time by Black Country, New Road (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 2021.
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Overall rank: 1,137
Average rating: 82/100 (from 364 votes).
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Tracks:
1. Instrumental
2. Athens, France
3. Science Fair
4. Sunglasses
5. Track X
6. Opus
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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HoldenM
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- #3
- Posted: 02/18/2022 00:37
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I enjoy this record quite a bit. An exciting trip with some beautiful guitar weavings and excellent horn accompaniment.
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DommeDamian
Imperfect, sensitive Aspie with a melody addiction
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Location: where the flowers grow. 
- #4
- Posted: 02/18/2022 08:03
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Quite sick that a band's debut and sophomore both now are album of their years.
Anyways, I think this album is pretty decent overall. The musicianship is very solid, principally on Instrumental cause that is one of the finest plays of 2021, but the vocalist is just so out of touch with the quality of the band and emotion in general. Besides again Instrumental, I'm not gonna return to this album anytime soon. It's not bad at all, but it is not the best album that 2021 had to offer. 60/100 although close to 55.
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- #5
- Posted: 02/18/2022 09:01
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One of the highlights of 2021 imo. I still like it better than Ants From Up There, it's just experimental and interesting enough to stand out from the post rock and post punk crowd. Pretty much every song is a banger.
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- #6
- Posted: 02/18/2022 17:11
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one of the best albums of 2021. This album was the first ever "new album" that I listened to when it came out. One could say it was the album that got me into rateyourmusic and besteveralbums. Its so unique and inventive. Harsh and abrasive, but also jazzy and melodic.
Lesson learned: Leave kanye out of this
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- #7
- Posted: 02/21/2022 17:44
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I was kinda underrating this when AFUT came out since it was so much better than this album, but now I've returned to it, it holds up as a special record and the best british post punk record od 2021 (one of the best overall also).
| DommeDamian wrote: | Quite sick that a band's debut and sophomore both now are album of their years.
Anyways, I think this album is pretty decent overall. The musicianship is very solid, principally on Instrumental cause that is one of the finest plays of 2021, but the vocalist is just so out of touch with the quality of the band and emotion in general. Besides again Instrumental, I'm not gonna return to this album anytime soon. It's not bad at all, but it is not the best album that 2021 had to offer. 60/100 although close to 55. |
Actually, even though Instrumental is also one of my favourites, I can't agree about the vocals at all. I found Isaac Wood's voice to have a very strong presence and his is commaning and charming enough to grab my attetion. I actually feel like the vocals are the part in which BCNR are clearty head and shoulders above the bands like Shame, Squid and even black midi.
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DommeDamian
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- #8
- Posted: 02/21/2022 20:08
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Actually, even though Instrumental is also one of my favourites, I can't agree about the vocals at all. I found Isaac Wood's voice to have a very strong presence and his is commaning and charming enough to grab my attetion. I actually feel like the vocals are the part in which BCNR are clearty head and shoulders above the bands like Shame, Squid and even black midi. |
Agree to disagree. Squid imo is the only one where the vocalist is as complex as the instrumentation and where it actually works.
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- #9
- Posted: 02/22/2022 17:07
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| DommeDamian wrote: | | Daydreamer wrote: |
Actually, even though Instrumental is also one of my favourites, I can't agree about the vocals at all. I found Isaac Wood's voice to have a very strong presence and his is commaning and charming enough to grab my attetion. I actually feel like the vocals are the part in which BCNR are clearty head and shoulders above the bands like Shame, Squid and even black midi. |
Agree to disagree. Squid imo is the only one where the vocalist is as complex as the instrumentation and where it actually works. |
Squid's vocalst is definitely the most dynamic, I just didn't like the tone of his voice that much.
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- #10
- Posted: 02/22/2022 17:32
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| Daydreamer wrote: | | Actually, even though Instrumental is also one of my favourites, I can't agree about the vocals at all. I found Isaac Wood's voice to have a very strong presence and his is commaning and charming enough to grab my attetion. I actually feel like the vocals are the part in which BCNR are clearty head and shoulders above the bands like Shame, Squid and even black midi. |
Agree with this. Instrumental is my favorite but I do feel like the vocals fit. I sorta get what DommeDamian is saying though, I've ALWAYS been of the opinion that Pink Floyd's various vocalists do not fit the tone of their music at all, except for a select few songs.
I didn't even put this in my top 25 of 2021, but damn is it a good album, and I think maybe that just speaks to the quality of music in the year as a whole. I do think it was the best post-rock and possibly even the best standard rock album of last year (I have 3 "rock" albums ranked higher in my chart, 2 of which are art rock and 1 is punk, and I think For the First Time is more similar to the latter).
As much as I enjoyed this, the follow-up this year is even better. I'm absolutely stunned by Ants from Up There and it has led me to re-appreciate their debut a bit more (if I can even "re-appreciate" anything that I experienced the first time like 5 months ago).
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