Hot off the heels of their debut album Postindustrial Hometown Blues, Big Special stylise their name in caps lock for a reason: they pretty much perform in caps lock. Vocalist Joe Hicklin is Birmingham’s answer to a fire-and-brimstone preacher, his partner-in-crime Callum Maloney supplying equal fervour on the drums. The Midlands duo are proudly working class, their music cut from the same cloth as Sleaford Mods and Idles: “gritty little ditties and gutter-punk poems about the dead-end dullness of modern life” — anthemic and angry.
Country: UK
Label: SO Recordings
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