After several years of lineup and repertoire changes, the UK group returns with an ambitious and unabashedly twee album overflowing with baroque flourishes and communal spirit. Now, three years after ...

But four days before that album dropped, Wood departed the band. Yet instead of burning out or fading away, BCNR doubled down. They didn’t just keep going; they did something infinitely braver: They ...

But elsewhere, the album dips into something that feels more like musical theatre than a natural evolution of the band’s sound. The arrangements are ornate and whimsical, the lyrics often ...