African Tape [2011]
I just listened to this EP three times in a row. I don't do stuff like that. I like variety. I am a variety man. Fuck. This is good...
Big'n started bangin' out noises in 1990, both starting and stoking the flames of the great noise rock blaze that would engulf half of the decade. It's been 11 years since this band's last release, so this EP seems to come off as a "comeback" teaser of sorts. Not to say the band had ever really stopped (their output has always seemingly trickled out over longer periods of inactivity) but rather to point out that the songs presented here are by no means a product of lighthearted nostalgia "for the fans" or anything. This shit hits hard. This is a fucking showcase.
The EP provides 4 tracks of fierce, rhythmic noise rock at it's best. A beautiful culmination everything heavy, dissonant, and rocking. This EP is an audible representation of that one time when David Yow and Steve Albini fucked in that back alley while Birthday Party- era Nick Cave watched... touching himself. It's fantastic and I just listened to it again while writing this. Thats 4 times...
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