Ants From Up There

Ants from Up There is the second studio album by the British rock band Black Country, New Road, released on 4 February 2022 on Ninja Tune. Recorded at Chale Abbey on the Isle of Wight, the album was produced by the band's live sound engineer Sergio Maschetzko, and is the final album to feature lead vocalist and guitarist Isaac Wood, who announced his departure from the band four days prior to the album's release. Written during COVID-19 lockdowns and road-tested during brief touring stints in support of the debut album, For the First Time, Ants from Up There was released almost exactly a year after the debut, and was preceded by four singles: "Chaos Space Marine", "Bread Song", "Concorde" and "Snow Globes". The band intended to produce the album as a collective body of work, preferring to focus more on vulnerable topics than fictional scenarios and more apathetic lyrics. The album received unanimous critical acclaim upon its release for its musical evolution, songwriting, and emotional depth, becoming Black Country, New Road's highest-charting album, debuting at number 3 on the UK Albums Chart and reaching the top 10 in Australia, Germany and the Netherlands. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ants_fr...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)