NATIONAL AVERAGE. CD

Softpak digipak, with 20 page booklet card wallet 43 obi strip.BIG SPECIAL have released a surprise new album NATIONAL AVERAGE., out today on SO Recordings. It arrives after days of the band teasing projections of the album039s artwork across London landmarks.When BIG SPECIAL first emerged, their contorted mix of existential bellowing, vehement poetic polemics and soulful, skyscraping vocals and hardhitting punk instantly set them apart. Huge tours and festival headline spots followed, and somewhere in amongst the chaos of the ensuing year, the pair found time to write new album NATIONAL AVERAGE. It039s a record on which the band lose none of that early fire or potency, and instead expand their sound to incorporate elements of funk, lavishing it with their characteristic darkness and black humour, honestly representing their lives in the only way they know how. It focusses on brotherhood, pressing on through the changes in their lives, big and small.