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“Sunglasses” is the fourth and longest track on Black Country, New Road’s 2021 debut album "For the first time". The two-part, nearly-ten-minute track is a re-recorded version of the band’s second single (released in 2019) of the same title. The album version of the song adds a ninety-second guitar introduction, more refined production and mixing, denser instrumentation, less frenetic vocal delivery from frontman Issac Wood, and modified lyrics.
"It was a genuine realisation that I felt slightly more comfortable walking down the street if I had a pair of sunglasses on. It wasn’t necessarily meditating on that specific idea, but it was jotted down and then expanded and edited, expanded and messed around with, and then became what it was. Sunglasses exist to represent any object, those defense mechanisms that I recognise in myself and find in equal parts effective and kind of pathetic. Sometimes they work and other times they’re the thing that leads to the most narcissistic, false and ignorant ways of being. I just broke the pair that my fiancée bought for me, unfortunately. Snapped in half." - via Apple Music
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