I was misinformed. I thought the band broke up, but the lead singer just departed. My bad.

Singer gone after 2 albums. Can't wait for Black Country, New Order.

One of the only albums where most of the songs feel like closers

“Don’t eat your toast in my bed” has to be one of the most tragic lines of all time

brad: this song reminds me of in the aeroplane over the sea because of the storytelling elements me: this song reminds me of in the aeroplane over the sea because they both have planes

They’re not necessarily gone! They’ve actually started writing songs with the bass player, Tyler Hyde, singing lead. I’ll miss Isaac’s vocals but personally I can’t wait to see how the band grows from here. I mean black midi separated with their lead guitar player and they still came out with Cavalcade!

didn’t expect this album to hit so hard but i ended up sobbing at the end

Blade is one of the best songs ive ever heard

Brad, I've been sub to your channel for about 4 months now and I have to thank you for this video in particular. I've never heard of Ants From Up There until 2 days ago when I watched your video. I watched you react to the first 2 tracks before deciding that I want to listen to the rest of the album spoil free. AFUT is extremely theatrical which is just my type of music. I cried. I cried 5 times listening to it. I've never cried more then once because of an album but God damn it AFUT broke that. A little story time: It was night when I was listening to the album for the first time. I decided to go lay in grass and watch the clouds, moon, and stars. Then, The Place Where He Inserted The Blade started playing. I chased the moon with my eyes as it seemingly moved like it was actively trying to avoid my gaze. I watched the clouds drift by covering the sky, sometimes it shifted interchangeably with the dark night. At one point, the clouds had completely covered the sky so I closed my eyes. "I know, you're tired. I'm tired too." My hands were numb, mostly from the cold but I didn't care. I felt my body sink into the ground as a breeze hit me. I just layed there in pure nothingness until the song ended. I slowly opened my eyes. A completely clear sky with the moon and stars staring directly at me. This is the first album I've ever shared something like this with. What I'm trying to say is, Brad, thank you for introducing me to my Favorite album and song of all time.

It was better that isaac left, as much as I love his lyricism and writing style. I wish the greatest health for him and for the band moving forwards. Black Country, New Order

this is easily my AOTY so far and i will be shocked if something beats it

I think the bread in the bread song represents an annoyance, since Isaac is talking about crumbs of bread in his lovers bed. Essentially she sees him as a crumb of bread in her bed which is to say she sees him as an annoyance and doesnt actually want him there. This is why the lyrics on this song sound so dejected.

This album is the easiest 10/10 in a long time

I have not been able to get the very first lyric of The Place Where He Inserted The Blade outta my head since the album released. "You're scared of a world where you're needed, so you never made nice with the locals." *EMOTIONAL DAMAGE*

The billie eilish style lyric may sound dumb but is a reference for the fact that billie had suicidal thoughts in a Berlin hotel. And the whole album is about a falling relantionship and the main character loves his partner even if his partner don't love him, he is just in pain every time. Also, Mark's Theme was made about the Uncle of the saxophist that died of covid. And yes, the whole album was made around Basketball Shoes, the song was the first and most important song on the Project. Also, react to By the Time i Get to The Phoenix by Injury Reserve, one the members in Injury Reserve died and the other two members maked a masterpiece that changed rap history, this album, Atrocity Exhebition and Some Rap Songs changed rap dude. Please, listen, it was the AOTY of 2021.

it's actually very interesting to me that people find this album so depressing, because i find it to be kind of sad but with a very optimistic twist to it EDIT: it's been a month after and i would say this is still a strong feeling for me. v bittersweet and honestly the beauty has me floored half the time

Just because its a BCNR video.... THIS IS THE ABSOLUTE PINNACLE OF BRITISH ENGINEERING

Have a feeling this album is probably going to be important in this decade of indie rock. I haven't gotten this choked up while listening to an album since By The Time I Get To Phoenix last year.

Concorde is an amazing song. It's incredibly relaxing, and the music video is my favorite of the year.

Snow globes is a temporal warp of a song, I set out to listen to 9 minutes of song and every single time I come out feeling like I just listened to 30 seconds. It goes by so fucking quick in my mind and in others', like I can't even begin to comprehend why that might be

You nailed it with Basketball Shoes! I think the band literally stated the album was written around that song

I hope BCNR's next era is as good as their first, but Isaac's departure has an air of finality to it. He is just such a powerful and emotive singer with some of the most beautiful and poetic lyrics I've ever heard. If the original lineup had stuck around, I truly believe they'd have become one of the greatest bands of all time.

This album takes a lot of influence from Arcade Fire, particularly their album Funeral. You should do a video on that if you haven't before!

I don't find this album to be that sad actually. Think it also portrays a lot of positivity. Mostly a beautiful kind of sadness if you catch my meaning.

The band is not done tho, the members of the band already confirmed that they're going to continue. There's going to be more people singing

This album seriously blew my mind. I could not believe how much they improved since their first record, and I am truly stunned.

This album is 10/10 it was a roller coaster of emotions it showed so much passion and emotion to the craft of music this album moved me in a way I didn’t expect it to when this isn’t even my genre of music it still hit me like a brick wall truly beautiful record

1:15 Intro 1:50 Chaos Space Marine 3:27 Concorde 7:03 Bread Song 9:32 Good Will Hunting 11:56 Haldern 14:31 Mark's Theme 15:30 The Place Where He Inserted The Blade 17:21 Snow Globes 19:38 Basketball Shoes As payment for my timestamping services please listen to the new Animal Collective album

While I think this album is even better than their debut, I feel like I’ll end up listening to FTFT more since I’d have to be in a certain mood to handle the overwhelming melancholy of AFUT. 10/10, beautiful album

I personally feel like the “don’t eat your toast in my bed” line is the idea that he knows the relationship is ending, and that he doesn’t want there to be reminders once she has gone (crumbs)

This album just makes me want to live life. So I don’t end up unfulfilled, even though you’ll have these moments of depression and sadness in life we always can persevere.

Been a while since I sat and watched a whole Brad taste reaction and dude you've gotten so much ridicuously better at articulating your points in the moment. Good shit Brad

In my top 3 albums ever already

I love haldern so much

I love your energy in this vid brad, awesome reaction

the first time I listened to this album I never got bored for a single second, and when I finished it I just listened to it again straight after, just unbelievably good

Every song on this album (except the interludes, though I do love them) would be the best song on every other bands albums, and they did it all on one album

This a 10 for me my guy. Glad you still saw the genius in it though. I personally don't see this record getting topped anytime soon

I wasn't the biggest fan of their debut (though i still liked it for what it was) but this album really took me by surprise. I didn't expect this much vulnerability and depth going into this, especially on the lyrical front. It really feels like the work of a group of people who have known each other their whole lives joining together to make one big passion project to cap off an era. The songwriting on this album is so powerful at points it made me break down into tears on more than one occasion which doesn't happen very often when i listen to albums. Seeing Isaac depart from the band is heartbreaking but at least he went out on a bang and i'm really excited to see what these guys have in store for us going forward.

Listened to the album for the first time last night... man it was definitely an experience. It woke up some many emotions that I haven't really tapped into in a long time, to the point where Basketball Shoes tore me to shreds when it reached the end. My regret is that I didn't listen to the album when it first came out but I feel that if I did, it really would've made me do... something bad, because the first two months of the year were some of the lowest parts of my life, but listening to it yesterday was almost like a reflection on it all, to the point where I could at least go to sleep when it was all said and done. Amazing album.

Just bought this album on vinyl I love it so much it’s like a sound track to a bad ass sci fi story

11:45 famous last words

_Finishes Basketball Shoes_ ... "I see"

The finale of Basketball Shoes is on another level entirely

I don’t think it’s as sad as you’re saying it is. There are plenty of moments of lightheartedness to be found here. It’s nowhere near as depressing as the saddest albums of all time like A Crow Looked At Me.

ALBUMOFTHEYEAR

Ive never heard about this band. Thank you for introducing me to this album

The production on this album is so silky smooth I love it

Very happy to see u this energetic and excited about this album, not only because it’s great, but because I feel like the pressure of being a reviewer was dwelling on u and taking away from a bit of the joy of music. I am a new viewer and when I had watched ur Earl video u had mentioned u were battling depression and u seemed a totally different KZfaq than this video. Great analysis u are proving to be one of my favorite music reviewers. Loved seeing u smile and keep pushing through!

i've been waiting to be in the right mindset for this album. I've only heard snow globes so far and it blew me away, i'm expecting this to be an aoty contender for sure. I think the neutral milk hotel comparisons are apt, especially with the lead singer leaving right after this massive album.. it feels like he put literally everything he could into this and we're left with an incredible piece of music

i said this on the video for basketball shoes already, but i can’t wait to have nostalgia for this album in around 10 years.

i’m not sure what i was expecting whenever i went into the album, but i wasn’t expecting the most emotion ive ever felt in my goddamn life. snow globes and basketball shoes made me cry in the same way that the iron claw made me cry, 11/10 album

I like how over time Brad has gone from twirling the hair on his while he listens to music, to twirling the hair on his face. Just a fun thing I've noticed over the years. Great video Brad!

the way I see it this whole album is Issac’s process of realizing that his relationship is failing and his partner doesn’t really love him, “Snow Globes” is the moment that he realizes that it’ll never work if the other person doesn’t care about him, and “Basketball Shoes” represents the pain he feels after breaking up with them

just started the video and let me guess, you cried to either haldern or snow globes, maybe both edit: ok he didn't cry but he looks like it hit his feelings so it's still a win

You're completely right that the album was based around Basketball Shoes!

I wouldn't want to experience this album for the first time again, i think i'd want to experience it for the third time again. That's when it really clicked for me.

Bro you are so enjoyable keep it up

This album is fucking brilliant, 10/10 imo

This album hasn’t clicked with me yet but seeing how much you enjoyed it gives me like a contact click. Now I love the album.

IM SO HAPPY TO SEE U REACTING TO THIS !!!

Ants From Up There is one of those albums that's a slow burn. An album that's best enjoyed when you're in a vegetative state of mind, that you really need to immerse yourself in.

Basketball Shoes is the song of the decade.

ALSO ALL THESE TRACKS ARE RECORDED LIVE !!! CAN U BELIEVE THAT ???

the tragedy of the place where he inserted the blade imo isn't that his lover doesn't love him back but that she has this deep trauma that prevents them from connecting, the severed nerve that would allow her to feel him. that's why he's SO desperate, why he needs her to respond to him SO badly, because this caretaker-lover needs to know that he can help her and is suffering because he couldn't

At first listen I thought that this album was pretty and bittersweet, but after seeing your reaction and on relistens I've come to the idea that it's just so tragically sad. It's almost like putting on a happy face, pretending everything is okay while internally you feel this great sense of dread and dissonance. Isaac's delivery is practically manic at points, and I think it really ties into the final words of the album 'Your generous loan, your crippling interest'. At the end it's just this amazing catharsis, you're done pretending everything is alright. Going into this album with this perspective just makes the whole thing a lot more tragic and heartbreaking.

I'm guessing the guy who explained Snow Globes was Professor Skye's Record Review lol?

Concorde is truly fantastic. These songs hit a lot hard than ones on the previous LP, though I think FTFT had more interesting musical moments.

basketball shoes is the best song of all time

Haldern is a part of a spontaneous improv jam they did live

I just bought the deluxe 4 LP vinyl, I have to have this one in my h a n d s and e a r s in its purest, best form. It's too perfect.

I was looking forward to this! My one suggestion Brad is that, when you find the desire, time and patience, give it another listen. I found just about every song on here to be a huge grower.

i think it'll help to look at genius annotations sometimes. haldern is basically an improvisation and mark's theme is a song dedicated to sax's guy dead uncle

Great reaction! Really amazing album. One thing, I don’t think BCNR is breaking up. Unless I’m behind the times and news, I had last heard Isaac left but they weren’t breaking up.

Basketball Shoes. My God, what a way to end an album.

The place where he inserted the bladee is so good it’s unfair

Ants From Up Where is one of my favourite albums from 2022. Ants From The Sky is one of those masterpiece albums, that could just click on the first or second listen. This is why Ants From Up Close is probably my album of the year for 2022

hope you're feeling well Brad, another great video

Professor Skye goes in about this about Mark’s Theme in his video. That song is about one of the band members uncle’s (uncle Mark) passing away from Covid. Highly recommend his video though, as he was in correspondence with the sound engineer and producer of the album and he gives amazing insight.

This was my first time listening to the band and I already miss Isaac. Don't know what the band will do without him, but if someone does replace him, I wish all the best to that person.

I didn’t find this album to be the 10/10 that a lot of people have it as, but seeing all the positive stuff about it and how many people love it is awesome.

That theory stated that the entire album was made around Basketball Shoes holds pretty strong ground, and I find that to be incredibly interesting compared to other closers on most albums. Most albums will end with “the track that sounds most climatic” or “a good banger” but this takes the concept of a closer to a whole new level, incorporating all of the lyrical themes, sound palettes and heavy emotion laced throughout the project. However, the album was definitely not built around the original cut of the song, the lyrics and meaning of the track were a lot different and when it comes to prior For The First Time BC,NR lyrics… they were kinda shit and in places uncomfortable, intentionally so on the latter when it comes to Basketball Shoes but not so intentionally on the former. It was cool seeing a reaction of this album Brad, this album’s one for the ages. Instant classic, without a doubt.

I get closer to crying every time I listen to this album again lmao

I love this album so so much. Just bought it signed on vinyl. Most money ive ever spent on music.

SNOW GLOBES DON’T SHAKE ON THEIR OWN

Great review Brad, some funny bits. GWH and the Blade are some of my favourites by them . I didn't feel as strongly on snow globes and haldern just seemed like they didn't offer much new stuff compared to the other tracks but that being said they're still great songs. It's at least a 9/10 for me but there's 2 tracks I'm not as big on compared to just Track X from FTFT

You really turned into a brad toward the end haha 😂. I love your personality tho. Keep being you and be proud of it. Your a really likable guy. Lot of character.

I think the bread or particles of bread are talking about literal crumbs because it seems like he doesn't care about the uncomfortable annoyance of bread crumbs being in his bed because nothing means anything after the person he's talking has left him

10/10 masterpiece

hey brad, you should check out the blog post they did with rough trade records - talking about the future of the band and stuff

Brad stays winning

13:24 is the exact same thing i did. god that song is mesmerizing

I think the “toast/crumbs in my bed” is a metaphor for your lover seeing parts of your personality you don’t normally show while you’re in bed, particularly negative ones like mental illnesses because they said “this place is not for any man, nor particles of bread”

Great video!!

one of the easiest 10s in my life

you look so motivated. keep it up. peace

this is my favorite album of all time, it completely blew my mind. aoty for sure

Just discovered these guys after the hype train exploded this week. Its definitely pretty interesting. People seem very excited for this as an all-timer, which I'm not quite tracking. How would you guys say the emotional rawness being turned up to 11 on every single track doesn't come off as heavy handed or self-serious? Not trying to be glib, just curious how it escapes that wire-balancing act? Not sure if it does for me.

never thought i’d see a bcnr x bladee crossover

i love brad