Album Review: Big Bill’s Strawberry Seed

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Austin’s Big Bill grows up – sort of

For more than a decade, Big Bill has reigned as one of Austin’s weirdest art-rock acts. Piling “angular, jarring, and adrenaline-fueled” riffs into a “cacophony of feverish, chaotic punk and absurdist humor,” as theput it in 2018, the band united all freaks interested in the energy of the counterculture, if not the aggression.

Eric Braden leads his bandmates – dressed in matching tracksuits or coordinated primary colors – with a heightened, climbing-up-the-rafters energy. Even in his political moments, Braden’s sense of humor remains. Riffing on the tired/wired meme format, he repeats the refrain “poverty is tired” in “Poverty of Wires.” In toxic masculinity takedown “Emotions,” he cracks, “Men use emotions/ They use ’em like shotguns.”. He does so on “Crinkle the Wrapper,” a chilled-out swayer whose slide guitar evokes a vaguely Hawaiian vibe, and on “In the Garden,” a full-on love song that utilizes analog piano and glimmering synths in equal measure.

 

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