Off the back of dropping surprise second album NATIONAL AVERAGE. in July via SO Recordings, Big Special now share new single ‘PLAINTIVE NATIVE’.
The thunderous British duo are going back on the road in February, including a performance in Nottingham at the Rescue Rooms on February 14th and Birmingham at the O2 Institute on February 21st.
Explaining ‘PLAINTIVE NATIVE’, frontman Joe Hicklin said, “The song is about political turmoil clouding the minds of the nation that turns moral conviction into apathy. It’s about worry for the future and a lack of hope. It’s the confusion of trying to be good when everything is so bad and not knowing how to navigate and trust all the wagging fingers and waving fists.”
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.
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