On Repeat: Big Business: "Just as the Day Was Dawning" [MP3]
If, when we talk about music, "pummeling" generally means the drums are played hard and "rumbling" means that a certain bass sound is at the forefront, then Big Business are two of the most rummeling and pumbling dudes around. Their version of the bass guitar/drums duo steers clear of Death From Above 1979's clarity and sharp production for a muddiness that announces itself with the opening of drummer Coady Willis' distant drum call on Here Come the Waterworks opener "Just as the Day Was Dawning".
There are few real hooks in Big Business songs. Instead, they favor a hypnotic, fuzzy repetition of rumblingly pummeling drum fills and pumellingly rumbling bass riffs. And here, bassist Jared Warren adds just enough Robert Plant-like lyrical references to seasons that the song's battle attack seems like the middle of some sort of rebirth. The repetition makes the song a bit one-note, but on the other hand, once you get used to the volume and the Ian MacKaye pitch of Warren's yell, "Just as the Day Was Dawning" is just the sort of song that could pummel you into a sweet, rumbling sleep.
There are few real hooks in Big Business songs. Instead, they favor a hypnotic, fuzzy repetition of rumblingly pummeling drum fills and pumellingly rumbling bass riffs. And here, bassist Jared Warren adds just enough Robert Plant-like lyrical references to seasons that the song's battle attack seems like the middle of some sort of rebirth. The repetition makes the song a bit one-note, but on the other hand, once you get used to the volume and the Ian MacKaye pitch of Warren's yell, "Just as the Day Was Dawning" is just the sort of song that could pummel you into a sweet, rumbling sleep.
MP3: > Big Business: "Just as the Day Was Dawning"
[from Here Come the Waterworks; out now on Hydra Head] | [ORDER]