SPOTIFY REVIEW: Big Deal “June Gloom”

             My first exposure to the band Big Deal (who will probably be asked more times than they’d prefer “What’s the big deal?” by seemingly clever interviewers) was a video sent out in a press release.  I liked what I heard, so I don’t know why this album fell through the figurative cracks, but here we are.

            People who say defining music as “female music” or “male music” is sexist really need to start reviewing music.   Though these songs are primarily filled with female vocals, there are male vocals scattered throughout and sometimes he even takes the lead.   What would you call that, smart people who are too easily offended?

            I was pleasantly surprised by the start of this album, as it has a clean rock flow that for once I don’t feel the need to compare to Metric.  I love Metric and all, but it just seems like so many bands were coming out sounding like them in some way, you know?  

            In the course of six songs, we get treated to a pretty heavy number and then slowly go back down from there to the point where it becomes acoustic and almost purely ballads.   Some of the latter songs sound like Thursday, but one in particular sounds an awful lot like Foo Fighters.

            With the recent plethora of good music coming out featuring female vocals (and the combination of male and female vocals, to any given ratio), Big Deal is definitely a band that stands out amongst the rest.   They also have a great ascending, peak and then descending quality on “June Gloom” and I feel that really helps overall as well.