BIG SPECIAL unveil surprise new album, NATIONAL AVERAGE

Commenting on the new single, lead singer Joe Hicklin says: "‘GOD SAVE THE PONY.’ Is about the stones we carry. The different things that pull people down; the invisible weights that they have to drag through their everyday. On the personal level, it’s about reckoning with change. Reflecting on the moral obligations we have to ourselves and others and the mixture of the failures and successes in sticking to those. The weight of following a personal moral line is heavy on everyone’s shoulders. The song is a recognition of this strain in ourselves and others, and a well wish to keep going, whatever you have that drags behind."

Continuing about the album, he says: "‘NATIONAL AVERAGE.’ Is an album about the multitudes of a normal life as it begins to change. It’s about the stages of reflection on an average life as it moves further away. It’s about personal and political problems remaining the same as a life changes around them and they all begin to weave together."

BIG SPECIAL have been teasing their return with a series of album artwork projections across London, on buildings including The Tate Modern, London Bridge, Shoreditch High Street tube station, and Buckingham Palace. The surprise release follows the band's recently release album, POSTINDUSTRIAL HOMETOWN BLUES, and coincides with a run of UK in-store performances which begin tonight at Rough Trade East.

Tracklist:

1. THE MESS.
2. GOD SAVE THE PONY.
3. HUG A BASTARD.
4. SHOP MUSIC.
5. PIG'S PUDDIN.
6. PROFESSIONALS.
7. GET BACK SAFE.
8. YES BOSS.
9. DOMESTIC BLISS.
10. JUDAS SONG.
11. THE BEAST.
12. I ONCE HAD A KESTREL.
13. THIN HORSES.