BIG SPECIAL have shared their new track ‘BUTCHER’S BIN‘. Built on top of buzzing synths, it follows lead single ‘DUST OFF / START AGAIN’ which currently sits on the BBC 6 Music playlist.
Taken from their highly-anticipated debut album POSTINDUSTRIAL HOMETOWN BLUES which is set for release on 10th May via SO Recordings, ‘BUTCHER’S BIN’ arrives with news of the band’s biggest London headline show to date at The Forum in November, as well as a tour in support of Placebo through South America in March.
For 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.
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