2022 wasn't your ideal year for BCNR. A new album of material released to great acclaim. Then the planned tour to promote it completely trashed by Issac Woods their main lyricist and singer leaving the band the week the tour was due to start. So the band pulled out of everything and started to rethink and work on new material. They toured during the summer and autumn previewing the first fruits of the band, sans Woods
Now bearing the songwriting and singing duties across the band. They're still recognisably BCNR but judging by the material recorded at the end of last year on the Live at Bush Hall gigs, its a more wide ranging, eclectic and romantic sound. The Bush Hall recording appears to be an attempt to capture this early material before they move on. Never a band to think their recorded output was the definitive version of anything. It will be interesting to see if any of this material from 2022 makes it through to 2023.
Of this 2022 material Up Song is a favourite, bouncy, positive and yes definitely Up. It appears to be a rallying cry to themselves and their fans to value and celebrate what they've achieved together both with and without Woods. Its a little gem featuring the fascinatingly fractured vocal style of bassist Tyler Hyde. It is deservedly the opener on the Live at Bush Hall recording.
' Look at what we did together, BCNR, friends for ever.'
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