BIG DEAL
NEW ALBUM JUNE GLOOM– JUNE 4th, 2013
Photo Credit: Malia James
Big Deal introduced themselves with their emotive bedroom guitar ballads and electric chemistry last year via their debut release Lights Out. This June the London based duo of Kacey Underwood and Alice Costelloe are back with brand new album, June Gloom (June 4th, 2013) and a bold new sound.
Last year we laid out hints of a new record with “terdactol”–
a lavish whirlwind of guitars, keys and percussion that assaults the
senses and unleashes all of that pent up craving in one humid wave of
sound. Thoughtfully arming you with a soundtrack for those tempestuous
summer days June Gloom,like any good summer romance, will leave you enraptured.
Fleshing
out their delicate, nocturnal tones Kacey and Alice take their sound to
deeper, darker and more intoxicating height, courtesy of producer Rory Attwell (Veronica Falls, PAWS, Male Bonding) and a full band featuring bass and drums.
As a result, the 11 other tracks here are an exploration of the newfound confidence of ‘teradactol’, with a refinement and bold directness. If Big Deal’s
earlier tracks felt emotionally lacerating, this new body of work is
noisy, boisterous, with a more than assured melodic hook. This evolution
is made defiantly clear in the opener ‘golden light‘,
which deliberately unhinges the listener by opening with sweetly
strummed chords and interlocking vocals before building to a rousing
climax. Similarly, ‘dream machines’ crests on a jagged undertow of pounding drums, and the sinister ‘pillow’
gradually opens up to become something vast, scorched and desolate. The
pair infuse the volume with their own inimitable, off-kilter take on
angst-ridden emotional terrain; on the aptly titled ‘pristine’, they sing, “darkness wash over me, I let it in, it let me be”, while on the otherwise upbeat ‘call and i’ll come’ Costelloe plaintively asks, “What if no one else compares/ what if no one else cares?” It all reaches a beautiful crescendo with the finale ‘close your eyes’, which explodes from an almost unbearably intimate confessional (“I won’t ask why/ if it was love/ we let it die”) into a coruscating maelstrom that is as indelibly affecting as it is thrilling.
With June Gloom, Big Deal has expanded their sonic palette without losing any of their potency.
June Gloom TRACKLISTING
golden light
swapping spit
in your car
dream machines
call and i'll come
teradactol
pristine
pillow
catch up
little dipper
pg
close your eyes
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