Quadruple Single EP
Gold Metal
Big Business never ever
fails to sound heavy, and the trait admirably continues here on the ‘Quadruple Single EP’, their first release
with newly-installed guitarist Scott Martin (400 Blows) and their first on
their new label, Gold Metal. We’re still waiting for the full-length follow-up
to ‘Mind the Drift’, but for now
we’ll have to be content with this slab of sonic genius.
It maintains that
thunderous feel throughout, opening with ‘Always Never Know When to Quit’. It’s
right up there with other memorable Big Biz anthems such as ‘Grounds for
Divorce’, ‘Just as the Day Was Dawning’, etc. The drums roll, the guitars
squeal and the bass rumbles like the sound of hundreds, if not thousands of
hooves pounding the savannah, as bassist/vocalist Jared Warren yelps over the
top. Even with two guitarists on board, Warren and drummer Coady Willis are
still the ones providing the horsepower. ‘Ice Cold War’ follows, a
six-minute-plus machine that rumbles throughout. It shifts through a few
different gears, culminating in a huge riff that gradually slows and crashes to
an end.
‘City Ham’ isn’t quite as
grand in scale but still maintains a heaviness and crunch in trademark Big Biz
fashion, setting up nicely for the closer ‘Guns’, a one-chord stomp which leads
to the gang chant of ‘guns are better
than everything else!’ It’s a fine way to conclude proceedings, and one
that’s guaranteed to have you repeating those words as though Warren is the drill sergeant, and you’re the
grimy little maggot doing his bidding.
Put simply, Big Business continues
to do what they do best – making quality heavy sludgened rock without giving a
fuck about what anyone else does. Free of such restrictions, it’s onwards and
upwards for this band. And it’s high time you paid attention.
Peter
Clegg
‘Quadruple
Single’ is streaming here. As soon as I find a decent link to actually
purchase the thing, I’ll post it up here.
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