About this song
- “Bread Song” was first performed by Black Country, New Road in a Bandcamp Live improv set, streamed on the 6th February 2021. Isaac Wood, the vocalist at the time, confirmed the song’s title two days later. “Bread Song” might be rooted in something hugely relatable and every day – bread crumbs in bed – but the lyrics were tweaked and thought about in various stages over a four year period. And musically – a song that is tender and stripped back but swells up in beautiful moments that engulf the listener like crashing waves – it contains equal depth. “We wanted to do the first chorus with no time signature,” says Wood. “I went to see Steve Reich do Music for 18 Musicians and there’s a piece where a bar length is determined by the breadth of the clarinet player, they just play until they run out of breath. I wanted to try that with the whole band, where we don’t look at each other, we don’t make too many cues, we just try and play without time – but together.” ~ Ninjatune Lewis Evans: "It’s like two different songs in one. You’ve got this really quite flowing and free track in a melodic and conventional harmonic way, but rhythmically free and flowing accompaniment to Isaac’s vocals. It feels quite orchestral, and the way that we all play together on this recording is so in sync with each other. We were listening to each other so much, so the swells that one person starts making, people start responding to, and everybody is swelling at the same time and getting quieter at the same time. Then it turns into this almost Soweto, kind of township-style pop tune at the end. It’s a really fun ending to an intense, emotional tune." —via Apple Music . User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply. — lastfm