Big Business – The Beast You Are
Joyful Noise/Gold Metal – 2019
Rock, Noise, Sludge
Rated: ****
It has been out now for a couple of months and we already mentioned it a while ago when we stated what we had listened to the most in April. But when a record feels this good for the summer heat once revisited; I reckon we should do a bit more... With members that already earned their spurs in The Melvins, Murder City Devils and Karp, their own band Big Business has been one of those twisted amalgam of styles that originate from those mentioned bands and more. We can hear psychedelic heavy metal, noise, hard rock, sludge, punk and weird other tidbits. And on The Beast You Are it is all there in superb form. It is rock. Heavy rock. Heavy, loud and cumbersome and finally Big Business has managed to make all the pieces fall into the exact right place. On earlier records the band always had the tendency to become a bit too experimental. But on The Beast You Are there is finally room for something else, something more and something that immediately feels right to the beast inside. Thanks to a more uniform sound and great production there is a crispness to the compositions that make the tracks wash over you like warm waves of heavy bliss. And even though every track is heavy and huge, there is also something subtle about it all. Showing us, very carefully that there is beauty to be found in each and every earthquake…
(Written by JK)
