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Album Review: Big Special – National Average
From the first fuzzy, bass-driven punches of THE MESS, you know NATIONAL AVERAGE isn’t just a second album…
Interview: Big Special
Big Special have never been a band afraid to feel or to laugh. The Black Country duo, made up of childhood friends Joe Hicklin and Callum Moloney, are known for channeling big emotions with bigger noise, mixing poetry, post-punk and plainspoken truth into something strikingly sincere. With the deluxe edition of their debut album Postindustrial Hometown Blues now out in the world, we caught up to talk about everything from Brum venues and emotional gigs to how they really look after each other on tour and which dog would play the drums if Big Special ever needed a canine replacement..
Review: Big Special – Postindustrial Hometown Blues
On occasion there comes an album that speaks to the times, resembles the present moment and captures the emotions of a generation. ‘Post Industrial Hometown Blues’ does exactly that, it gives the words to describe the shared malaise, the perils of precarity, daily drudgery and pharmacological escapism.