Monday, May 25, 2009
Tonight Tonight in Music: Big Business, Tweak Bird and Pontiak
Posted by Chris Govella on Mon, May 25, 2009 at 9:00 AM
Grant Brissey suggests Big Business tonight at Neumo's in Up & Coming:
Big Business, Tweak Bird, Pontiak(Neumos) Big Business add another member (noted shredder Toshi Kasai) and get all proggy/epic for their third full-length, Mind the Drift. The result is some of the band's finest work yet. Sludgy, hulk-sized bass riffs still dominate, and Jared Warren and Coady Willis commit typically deft performances, but Kasai's sparse, razor-sharp guitar gives everything more depth and scope, both sonically and compositionally. Add Phil Ek's crystalline production, and you get one of the best rock albums in recent memory. While I miss the days of seeing them play smaller, more obscure venues every other week in this city (remember when they used to play upstairs at Neumos?), it's gratifying to see the business getting bigger. GRANT BRISSEY
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