BIG SPECIAL

city: Walsall
country: UK
genre: Alternative
styles: Synth, Punk, Spoken Word, Post-Punk, Electro

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credits: Isaac Watson

on hashbrandnew.com since June 16, 2023

ABOUT THIS BAND

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. Joe’s brimstone-fired voice marches from guttural punk barks and serrated spoken word to soaring soul and back again, in a form of alchemy that only he knows how to conjure. Their approach to a strand of punk with its roots in spoken word with such a soulful edge arrives 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.