From the magazine Rod Liddle

An astonishingly good new album from Black Country, New Road

Some of the songs on Forever Howlong stretch to nigh on seven minutes, but even so, rarely outstay their welcome

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EXPLORE THE ISSUE 19 April 2025
issue 19 April 2025

Grade: A

Is that a kind of nod to Oasis in the album title? I can’t think of a band less like that grunting Manc convocation, except in the fact that BCNR are just about the biggest band in the country right now, as the Gallagher bros were all those years ago.

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