After causing a stir in London, touring and recording with the likes of Crystal Castles and The Klaxons, winning NME’s best newcomer award and appearing at Glastonbury The Big Pink have finally released an Album.
The Big Pink are an Electro Rock/Folk duo hailing from London, they are comprised of Robbie Furze and Milo Cordell, lifelong friends who had previously released records for bands such as Crystal Castles and Titus Andronicus on their own record labels before signing to 4AD in February 2009. Their fourth single Dominoes and their first album A Brief History of Love was released in September this year.
The Big Pink are named after an album by The Band but upon listening to them for the first time you may think that is where the influence ends. The droning deep sounds and sharp tightened beats are more reminiscent of the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club or some tortured soul dragged from the gutters of 90’s Manchester and raised on a diet of Pins and Placebo than of 70’s country. But listen more closely and perhaps you can hear the folk melodies fighting for position amongst the phasing electronica. This is certainly not the only reference to past masters the band have made an effort to make; they have covered both Cocaine by Cream and Love Song by The Cure in the past couple of years.
The Big Pink are creating a certain amount of hype around them at them moment but this seems to be as much to do with the company they keep as it does with their music. I expect this band will end up in a pitched battle with their style fighting their content. Their first single from the album, Dominoes, has certainly given content a good beating, a poor attempt at epic sound that just doesn’t work and sounds far too overproduced and glossy compared to the garage sounds of pre album releases like Too Young To Love. I recommend listening to them now in case they end up using shockwaves to make their heads resemble Daliesque nightmares ergonomically designed for wanking off The Klaxons on an NME cover coming to your local Costcutter soon.
The Big Pink are currently Touring Europe, the US and Japan until the end of the year, briefly interrupted by a number of dates supporting Muse on their UK arena tour this November.
IOHO recommends the tracks:
Too young to Love and She’s No Sense
Websites:
musicfromthebigpink.com
www.myspace.com/musicfromthebigpink
Too Young to Love
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