Command Your Weather
Joyful Noise
2016
Rating: 6.5 shining lenses out of 10
Having seen them live so many times and being a huge fan of their performances, it's hard to know what to say about a Big Business record. First and foremost, they're almost nothing alike - the recordings are melodic, well-produced, shit there are even vocal harmonies! You get none of that live - live, it's just pummeling, sludgy noise metal, and I love it even if I can rarely tell one song from another. You can listen to their records all you want, when you see them play the songs in front of you and that wall of amps is blasting your face and laughing at your ear plugs you're likely not going to know what the fuck they're playing, and you're also likely not to care - or at least I don't. Because of this, I don't think about their recordings very much to be honest - recordings that are totally fine, though not particularly spectacular. I may or may not listen to this album very much, but you can be damn sure I'll be at the show the next time they come through town.
