Road Defense: Outsiders for apple instal

And so it was just a small edit, just to try and refine the meaning of the song. I just didn't do the best job at saying the thing I was wanting to say. “We knew we were going to be rerecording it, so I listened back to the original and I thought about what opportunities I might take to change it up. So to fit with making an accurate presentation of our sound or our journey as musicians, we thought it made sense to put one of the first things we wrote first.”

Had I played the record back to us then, I would be completely over the moon about it.” Here, Wood walks us through the album start to finish. “These were the people who had taught me and enabled me to be a good musician. “I felt like I was able to be good with these people,” Wood says of his six bandmates. “I think that's basically all it can be, and that's the best it can be.” Intended to capture the spark of their early years-and electrifying early performances-For the First Time is an urgent collision of styles and signifiers, a youthful tangling of Slint-ian post-rock and klezmer meltdowns, of lowbrow and high, Kanye and the Fonz, Scott Walker and “the absolute pinnacle of British engineering.” Featuring updates to singles “Sunglasses” and “Athens, France,” it’s also a document of their banding together after the public demise of a previous incarnation of the outfit, when all they wanted to do was be in a room with one another again, playing music.

“I don't think it's an incredible, incredible album, but I do think it's an honest portrayal of what we were like and what we sounded like when those songs were written,” Black Country, New Road frontman Isaac Wood tells Apple Music of his Cambridge post-punk outfit’s debut LP.

Road Defense: Outsiders for apple instal