Big Business – Command Your Weather
Released July 8th, 2016
Big Business’ fifth album, Command Your Weather, is the duo’s first recording devoid of additional personnel to fill out their sound. Fortunately for devotees, the guys satisfactorily fill in the newfound swathes of negative space with amplified versions of Big Business’ tinnitus-inducing murky, abyssal bass riffs, and simplicity, heaviness, and blackened hooks. Bassist Jared Warren and drummer Coady Willis (both of whom moonlight as the rhythm section for the Melvins) unleash an unrelenting bomb of low-end grooves and unpleasant feedback that passes by in a harsh blur. There’s so little space on the album Command Your Weather is almost purposefully inaccessible to the point of masochism, and truly digging into the album requires commitment and endurance. With out taking time to truly digest the material, all the songs end up sounding the same, and I’m not sure that’s what they were going for.
3 out of 5 stars
