It’s taken me some time to actually get around to listening to The Big Pink’s debut ‘A Brief History of Love’, the hype killed them for me before they’d even properly begun. And then I heard ‘Dominos’ on the radio. And wanted to listen to the album even less.
However, this is one of those occasions where I must admit that I was wrong with my ill informed judgement.
Faffing about with Spotify, I decided it was worth a listen. And I am now very glad I came to this decision.
Raucous, electric rock with a healthy dose of moody, shoegaze indie thrown in ‘A Brief History of Love’ makes me want to don a leather jacket and go see them live, only to exit, ears ringing and reeking of whiskey and coke.
‘Frisk’ is a sinister late-album point, channelling a few 90s grunge spirits, as well as being slightly reminiscent of a fewer of BRMC’s distorted, noisier tracks.
Even ‘Dominos’ has grown on me after a few more listens in the context of the album as a whole.
The album ends with a track called ‘Countbackwards from Ten’, which initially sounds as though it’s going to burst into a cover of Pixies’ ‘Where Is My Mind?’ only to take on a form of its own and set the perfect close to a well-deserved-of-the-hype debut.
Moral of the story? Listen to The Big Pink.
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