Name: Postindustrial Hometown Blues
Brand: Big Special

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

SOAKLPRB493 

Colour

Colour details

Red with Black Splatter

Discogs ID

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Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: Yes

Extended format

Extended format: Yes

Format detail

With Signed Print

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2024-05-10

Signed copies

Signed copies: Yes

Supplier US

RTUK

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

822166000362 

Total Cap

Red LP | Signed Copy | Rough Trade Exclusive

Artist

Big Special

Genre US

Alternative / Modern

Label US

So Recordings

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Big tip for 2024 from Rough Trade Shops. Words are not to be taken for granted. Especially when they’re being bellowed, full blast, by a broad-shouldered poet with the brimstone fire of a preacher and the honesty and wisdom of a layman, over ground-shaking live beats and between anthemic blasts of melody and rousing riffage. Words matter. History matters. People matter. And Big Special matter.

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.

Postindustrial Hometown Blues

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