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Product Identifiers
Record LabelSO Recordings, Sorq
UPC0822166000249
eBay Product ID (ePID)11071173088
Product Key Features
Release Year2024
FormatCD
GenreRock
ArtistBig Special
Release TitlePostindustrial Hometown Blues
Dimensions
Item Height0.33 in
Item Weight0.14 lb
Item Length5.31 in
Item Width5.26 in
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
Number of Tracks15
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Tracks1.1 Black Country Gothic 1.2 I Mock Joggers 1.3 Desperate Breakfast 1.4 Shithouse 1.5 This Here Ain't Water 1.6 My Shape (Blocking the Light) 1.7 Black Dog / White Horse 1.8 Broadcast: Time Away 1.9 Ill 1.10 Mongrel 1.11 Butcher's Bin 1.12 Dust Off / Start Again 1.13 Trees 1.14 For the Birds 1.15 Dig!
NotesFor BIG SPECIAL - Joe Hicklin (vocals) and Callum Moloney (drums) - their sound is one that comes from vital, frustrated young working-class voices that don't always get heard on the scale they should do. It's a frustration that comes to the fore through a voice that is at times coarse and raw, but sensitive, desperate and soulful at others. Hicklin's brimstone-fired voice marches from guttural punk barks and serrated spoken word to soaring soul and back again, arriving siphoned from their forebears, crushed under the weight of history, and retooled for a new generation. It's wrought, raw and angry at a world lacking options, the thinning of the common understanding between the social classes of England, exasperation at repeating cycles, and the feeling that you're watching your own life unfold from the outside.These are songs that channel that voice you hear when you look in the mirror and see your true self - fight songs for a world gone wrong.
