So proud of her 👏👏👏

What album is that?

@@luccasescobar9249 it’s by Kero Kero Bonito, it’s called Graduation if I remember correctly

@@BobV97 it’s bonito generation

@@mrLabear yes, coincidental. 🤣

i dont know why, but i audibly laughed really fucking hard at this.

I heard that lyric on the radio (with the subsequent line "with frail hands, she grips the nutribullet") when I was driving, and laughed so hard I pulled a muscle in my ribs and nearly crashed

it reminds him of a future he's no longer part of

the absolute pinnacle of british engineering

AND WITH FRAIL HANDS SHE GRIPS THE NUTRIBULLET..

The absolute pinnacle, if you will

Sounds like you've never heard horns in rock music before

@@mammothpool it's a reference to a lyric

@@mammothpool Sounds like you've never heard Sunglasses

I understood that reference!

higher than it deserves!

@@t.c.bramblett617 how come?

@@t.c.bramblett617 this record was phenomenal, how come?

@@t.c.bramblett617 tf u talking about g

@@VoicelessAuthority i would give it a 7.8

dude, leave Kanye out of this

Leave my daddy’s job out of this

why don't you leave your sertraline in the cabinet

And burn what's left of all the cards you kept

And f*ck me like you mean it this time Isaac

Really deserved one tbh

it reminded me of the black midi review ngl

he said nothing negative and then gave it a decent 8

Yeah, i would give it a strong 9 personally

I think the massive hype ultimately is going to keep most critics from giving it a ten (though it probably deserves it imo)

Shame and BC,NR holding the homefront down. 😞✊

Not based

It's my favorite track, but I liked the single release version better. "Fuck me like you mean it this time, Isaac!" But this version is also great and the old one still exists, so it's all gravy.

yeah how did he miss this? it's really obvious he's in someone else's house.

@@KyleGooner4 Anthony is so ignorant with all that he's learned.

Yeah and the sunglasses is obviously about people not being able to see his eyes so he doesn’t have to worry about that.

@@Matthew-zv8qe the father is the one wearing the sunglasses

SAME. That ending!

it blows me away everytime i hear it

Same although I prefer the single version over the album version

@@FeNIIXX96 A friend of mine was saying the same thing yesterday! Because I didn’t hear this version first, it’s tough for me to be bummed about the differing versions, but I’ll admit the single version is way more raw and goes a little harder

LEAVE KANYE OUT OF THIS

And his review was totally going for it, i'm surprised too

I'm expecting that this will land very highly on his end year list. It has to be lmfao

An 8 is when he's afraid to give it a 9. It's all calculated

He's gotta leave room on the scale, cause he's already looking forward to an even better follow up album :p

Yeah, but I can still see it ending up on his top 10 or even top 5 this year, kinda like what happened with Veteran by JPEGMAFIA

She is

I only clicked for KKB.

Thats being saved for slowthai

@@andrew1769 nope lol

@@andrew1769 uhhhhh

didnt age well

thanks for adding a good comment about the album and not one of four unfunny jokes

@@Princeps32 no problem, gotta appreciate this work of art.

I could not stop banging my head repeatedly throughout most of this track

@@mcgot2good this essay is literally the Greta Van Fleet of KZfaq comments

@Ivory_ Lagiacrus_YT The comments section is to host comments, some of which will be opinions. Sorry to see you so upset.

And Squid

@@wyntresnephew8552 yes agreed fully

I like Squid and this.and this band but I can’t see what’s so great about Black MIDI

@@brianjones2583 what’s great about black MIDI is black MIDI

honestly, I'm not quite sure what Black Country put on the table that Black Midi haven't already in a more nuanced manner

How do covid gigs even work

Whos " we " and if the country you mean is the UK I live there im just asking how it works you knobhead

@@ashspike5232 seated, distended

BCNR not the sort of band you'd wanna sit to, kinda disappointed

@@ashspike5232 yeah I had tickets to see them right when the first lockdown came in and it's just been delayed indefinitely sadly. Did get to see them back in 2019 though and they were great.

This and Black Midi's are, hands down, the best debuts in the last (at least) 5 years

golgi instantly thought of black midi heading into this review and thinking about band debuts

This album was insane. Sunglasses was such a good song to hear and like you said, the whole album is a breath of fresh air

@@AwakeyJoe69 I've never even heard of this band ...and im from the UK "black country"

It's not inventive whatsoever. I viscerally dislike this. Whenever there's a great instrumental moment, like the roaring guitars on "Opus", the vocalist comes in and drolly says some monotone, self-impressed shit about dating or pop culture, and the energy is immediately drained. People compare this to Slint, and that's downright embarrassing. The instrumentals lack the atmosphere and masterful pacing that Slint offered. Spiderland's entire appeal is how in control the band is about their dynamics, every loud crescendo feels genuinely earned after an entire song of tense build-up. This lacks a lot of originality. It's like these guys listened to Spiderland once, and decided to make a Zerwee-type album thinking they were actually doing something interesting. "Athens, France" is a perfect example of this. Also not afraid to hide the influence from fellow form-obsessed neo-yuppie outlet Black Midi, the vocalist sounds like the guy in creative writing class that thinks he's smarter than everyone else because he uses pop cultural references in his oldtimey postmodern poems that never really say anything. If this music was made in the 70's it would still be obsolete in its avant-garde pretensions. The lyrics are utterly uninspired, but it's like a bunch of artsy misdirection to trick people that it's saying more than it really is. Give a vague metaphor here, stream-of-consciousness lyric there, and it's a song... I guess? Here, especially in the middle of the record, crescendos and dynamic changes aren't earned, the lad just reads from his journal, sounding like he's about to bust a nut, and suddenly there's some Klezmer horns from out of nowhere! Whoa, how neat! It truly is like being stuck with some random dude talking about boring shit at a Black Midi concert. It's so corny it manages to suck out everything that could be actually fun about this. I like some Black Midi for sure, but a great deal of these modern post-punk outfits are either unoriginal and repetitive or just vastly middle-of-the-road. This one is an exception though, it's the first one where I truly felt like I just wanted to throw up. This band is like a middle-class art student shouting at you all the time: "Look at me, check out how different I am!!" But they are actually really boring. If you take your boring song ideas and stretch them to over 6 minutes and add some random horn instruments and boring/cringe lyrics, it doesn't make them any better and doesn't magically transform them into good music. Play 6 minutes of a 7/8 guitar riff and say shit like “I remember when we fucked against my Sonic Youth poster. Your father stood in line at Tesco for a toaster” and then start blaring every horn instrument you can find around the 4 minute mark and people will lap it up like it's Shakespeare and Beethoven. This whole album is a fundamental misunderstanding of generic tropes. They're the type of losers who look at a piece of music and say "oh, this song is just based a single augmented chord repeated with syncopated rhythms and spoken word vocals that build to a climax... so if I do that I have a good song." The wry, ironic post-punkisms they're trying to hit on just don't work over tortured Slint rip-off guitar riffs. Some of the instrumentation is cool but the way the album is structured lacks cohesion, flow and meanders into self-indulgence. The build ups and loud/quiet dynamic happen for no reason seemingly, as they diffuse before exploding into anything interesting. Many of the lyrics on this album would be near the top of my Least Favorite Lyrics list if I ever made one, but the one that takes the cake is "Leave my daddy's job out of this." Are they speaking from the first person? As in they want people to not talk about how they have rich parents or something? Which is how they are able to have such a following even though they suck? Or are they speaking as a character of someone who has a rich dad and got where they got in life through their parent's influence? Which is totally not how we, Black Country, New Road, got to where we are in life. Also, if we're talking about the rambling, pretentious lyrics, there's one in particular that I want to bring up: "I am the modern Scott Walker". I know that it's supposed to be partially tongue-in-cheek, but the singer's vocal style is clearly influenced by Walker, so since they brought up the name, I have to say: step the fuck off it, man. Scott Walker is the modern Scott Walker. Bisch Bosch isn't even a decade old, he released material less than half a decade ago, and he died less than a couple years ago. To think that we need a new Scott Walker, a one-of-a-kind visionary, merely two years after he's passed, and that it will come in the form of something as derivative as this is laughable at best and outright offensive at worst. Black Country, New Road are the Greta Van Fleet of 'experimental' post-rock.

Yea wut de heck antonee

Yeah I think that's a good point, like he said the beginning I think they are still trying to figure out who they are as well so I feel like their best is yet to come

Challenge accepted

and what do you know, they actually did better :0

also, it's not "one of the few instrumentals" as he says, but maybe at a first listening it could seem weaker than the rest of the songs.

it was his least favourite...

His least favorite of six tracks that he liked. You know this is just his opinion right?

This is the only song I liked from this album

You absolutely hit the nail on the head. The whole time I was listening to this I was thinking hmmm I swear I’ve heard this before somewhere

Bruh. You nailed it. I thought I was reminded of the more explosive moments of Paul Dano's performance in Love and Mercy, but it's definitely more There Will Be Blood-esque.

Lmao that's my favorite movie and I never thought of that. He totally does sound like him 😭😂

I thought it sounded like Jamie Stwesrt from Xiu Xiu. 🤣

Hurts

Weird because he says that in the video but puts it in his least favorites

@@nick-kd2yx yeah I know that’s what I thought. Silly Tony

Dude same. I thought 9, maybe 8.

Opus is the most insane closer I've ever heard

It's post-punk, what did you expect

bleep bloop fitter happier

Guys an 8 minute long review is not gonna be a 10 lol. It's gotta be at least like 12 minutes long

What happened

It's basically a compilation album of singles released within the last year combined with like two new ones

Agreed. The crazy thing is they can reach some higher heights than this album. I expect a 10 from them one day, maybe their 3rd or 4th album.

pokernmusic 2nd

@@CaratGlobbins i'm predicting 2nd too

@@hackerdackers8832 the 2nd was a ten for me 🙈

an 8 is a very positive score stop bitching

Fans complaining about the score is the most bitch shit of all time, he thinks the album is great. An album can still have very little to no flaws and not be perfect, it just means it's consistently really good but not 10/10 amazing

the best

who's first?

Anthony's a tease

context pls?

@@kamikaizer001 sunglasses

It’s a lyric on Sunglasses

I'm more than adequate

Same bro

"second-best Slint tribute act" First = black midi?

God fucking damn that lyric hit me hard. Too real

@@th3giv3r Black Midi may be the best Soft Machine tribute act. I'm still trying to wrap my head (and ears) around 'Cavalcade'. BTW, i did get a chuckle from that line in 'Science Fair' as well. Where the heck did they pull that one from? Slint only had two albums.

Same

fr

:(

See you space cowboy

well they pulled a Slint and broke up after 2 albums.

@@CerdurTV 😫 Well it's just the front man that's left, the band isn't entirely officially broken up yet. I could see them having a King Crimson type career where they put out a lot of interesting stuff which is always overshadowed by their debut but still ok.

@@CerdurTV LMAO I JUST REALISED

@@jayr.3720 Impossible since their sophomore is better than the debut

@@jayr.3720 or a Pink Floyd move where the lead singer left due to mental illness, while the band members looking for new sounds and eventually outshined their og sound

Or he just likes the music

@@ashspike5232 read the desc

This is basically in all but the number lmao. He said like no negative things and honestly I agree

@@heckicusdoomicuswizardus1382 Listen to yourself sometime and ask yourself if you sound like someone God will let into heaven.

@@heckicusdoomicuswizardus1382 what a shit comment. Soo goddamn unnecessary

@@hguiohoiasdsad120 aight

@@camerondailey2627 what did he say

@@mathiasjrs2878 he told me to listen to more albums. Lol.

I feel like an album has to surpass simply having no faults to be a 10

Yeah it felt like he was describing a 9 the entire video

why would he need to give this forced bloated pile of shit a higher rating? he already did that with YWGWYW

@@willpowerbroken i would like to know what u listen to

@@brench2236 do u need something pRoFoUnD & eXpErImEnTaL for an anwser so i can be truly validated or can i get away with that i listen to lady sovereign and kreayshawn??

Why

VERY good comment

Any recommendations from their discography for a first time listener?

@@mileslemon Can't go wrong starting with Deceit, imo

@@mileslemon This heat deceit, it’s a classic

@@mileslemon Yeah Deceit is Goat status go with that, there's really no way to not fall into the deep with This Heat

Thank you. Like he gave some criticism but people look past it because he prasied it so much. Like the dude can say any number and people would be pressed

Gotta be a pop album with progressive themes apparently Could’ve sworn he gave dope body or someone a 9 recently though

@Death Hand Studios Yeah I'm a big fan of cicierega and mostly agreed with that score. I just think Fantano overrates a lot of pop type albums and gives too much extra credit for political themes he agrees with; however I suppose that's only natural

@Death Hand Studios Yeah, I just don't have another decent outlet for video reviews on experimental music (besides deep cuts) right now so I stick with Fantano, even if most the stuff he reviews nowadays doesn't appeal to me.

@Death Hand Studios Fair enough. I've been browsing soundcloud lately personally as it's pretty good for finding music that's unique but doesn't fit under the usual umbrellas. It seems like artists that do get big enough to be reviewed by Fantano and others tend to be more homogenized.

Why?

@@ankitchauhancr7 Because it turned out that he is not well. Personal and mental health issues forced him to leave the band just before the release of the second album. But Anthony's question about his state of mind sounds ironic to me, which is why I think, the comment has not aged well.

the moor mother and billy woods came out in 2020

n8 good point, hadn’t listened to it until this year so I honestly forgot

Whyy

@@ankitchauhancr7 he left the band because of his depression

yooo 😂

Why?

@@ankitchauhancr7 he quit the band cos of mental health issues

Bro we commented something extremely similar at the same time

@@MyBeautifulDarkTwistedFantasy6 no you didn’t

@@redshift912 fu

If the album had the OG Sunglasses, it'd be a 10 for me.

This is literally my only negative thought on the album

i think instrumentally its much better, but vocally its a huge downgrade. it didn't need a sing-songy revision imo

That horn/guitar crescendo thumped harder on the single, too.

I was disappointed by the change of lyrics, losing the vitriol that was apparent on the original version.

@@staigenerator2949 YOOO??

Maybe the album didn't have big flaws, but wasn't good enough to be a 10 or I don't know, that's the explanation I tell myself every time he fucking does this.

Think of it like a grilled cheese it can be really good and have nothing wrong with it but at the end of the day that shit is a grilled cheese not a lobster

These replys are the best

Ngl it does get a bit formulaic

@@mammothpool For sure, I personally didn't love it. it just seems like a weird review 🤷‍♂️

Yes

The Guest version is incredible and hits different today

No its not, the best its opus fr

@@Canela33 WHAT WE BUILT MUST FAAAAAALLO

You know its his opinion, right?

Also BC,NR is like the best new band, haven’t been this excited about an outfit since saturation was released

most likely. Its such an improvement from the first album.

I honestly think this is a 5 and that's like a 7 so all I'm saying is...

I think a 9, but I’m hoping for a 10.

Well, he has yet to go over 3 years without giving a 10, so maybe this is the year we get another one

not really 10 material

Yeah in this yeah we should have a 10

@@Munimun TOTALLY 10 material. Innovative, mind bending, emotionally packed

It's really good and fun, but I wouldn't say it's masterpiece material