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 | Big Fresh Moneychasers (CD) |
Bio:
Take a yacht ride in space, with the new Big Fresh record blasting out of the portholes. More hooks than an android can compute. Post-modern pop formations. Sleek wave of swirling harmonies, horns and electronic bliss. Humming like a child with a crystal radio.
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Bio (Continued):
This is the cosmic-scale pop of Moneychasers, the new album by Big Fresh, available October 25 on vinyl, CD and download on Garden Gate Records. Self-produced by the Kentucky avant-garde pop collective and engineered by electro-wizard Craig Morris in his hand-built Garden Gate Studio (The Apples in stereo, Thee American Revolution, Deathray Davies, Neutral Milk Hotel, Laminated Cat), the new album explodes with inventive catchiness and production details.
Big Fresh, a ten-member collective, has expanded like the universe since 2009’s ambitious home-recorded B.F.F. (Big Fresh Forever); they’ve been joined by a new singer (Kate Drof), a horn section, and two additional multi-instrumentalists.
With John Ferguson and Ben Phelan having joined world-touring indie band The Apples in stereo (and Ferguson contributing substantially on their most recent record), Big Fresh shows have been sighted, but are farther between—yet in the studio, madly writing and producing, the band has evolved like a star cluster.
The result is a stellar LP lying in a galactic sector between Tusk and R. Stevie Moore. Adding horns and the lush voice of Drof into their elaborate arrangements brings out the Fleetwood Mac influence on Big Fresh, and the R. Stevie Moore element is no accident: Vocalist/songwriter John Ferguson spent his childhood having the hyper-creative lo-fi pioneer as a sort of uncle, appearing on Moore’s recordings and immersed in his process. Moore contributed guitar parts to the album.
In addition to filling your mind with smooth, joyful music, Moneychasers aims to challenge your game-playing skills: The band created an absurd board game that makes up the album artwork. Now it is your move. Seal the hatch. Engage forward thrusters. Beam in some friends, press play and blast off.
More about Big Fresh and Moneychasers:
- Shining indie-pop hits somewhere between The Cars, Fleetwood Mac and Elephant 6.
- LP cover and CD packaging is a playable board game created by Big Fresh, with absurdly challenging rules included.
- Big Fresh is a ten-member pop collective including horns and three keyboard players.
- Three contributing members of Big Fresh do not appear live. One of them lives in China.
- Lo-fi recording pioneer R. Stevie Moore has served as an uncle and mentor to Big Fresh singer/multi-instrumentalist John Ferguson from childhood to the present. Ferguson has appeared on Moore’s recordings and radio shows since he was a toddler.
- R. Stevie Moore plays guitar on “Here Is The Deal” from Moneychasers.
- Singer John Ferguson has played keyboards in The Apples in stereo since 2006, and made songwriting contributions to the recent album Travellers in Space and Time by the influential Elephant 6 band. In addition, guitarist Ben Phelan is a touring synthesizer, guitar and trumpet player with The Apples.
- Keyboard player Ben Fulton played synthesizer and bass in ultra-lo-fi band Ulysses, along with Ferguson and Apples in stereo singer Robert Schneider.
- Garden Gate Records is an underground label specializing in pop, psychedelic and experimental records, operated by Marci Schneider (married to The Apples in stereo leader) and her brother, musician/producer Craig Morris (Thee American Revolution, Terrapin Pond, Ideal Free Distribution). Robert Schneider, co-founder of the Elephant 6 collective and record label, often assists the sister-brother team.
- Moneychasers was engineered by Craig Morris in his modified garage Garden Gate Studio, where most of the audio gear is hand-built by Morris himself (selected engineering and mixing credits: Thee American Revolution, The Apples in stereo, Neutral Milk Hotel, Ideal Free Distribution, The Deathray Davies, Laminated Cat).