It was recently announced that Isaac Wood, co-founder and frontman of Black Country, New Road, had left the band. Forthcoming tour dates were also cancelled. However, the band is continuing as a six-piece, and festival performances that were already planned will still take place “It's going to be an entirely new set of music,” says Lewis Evans. “Nothing played from albums one or two.” It marks the end of another chapter of the group as they reconfigure and move forward without Wood, leaving the work they completed as a seven- piece on those two recordings. The most recent of those recordings, February’s “Ants From Up There”, landed nearly exactly a year from their Mercury Prize-nominated debut “For The First Time”, and saw not only further critical acclaim but the band reaching no.3 in the Official Albums Chart.
