Public Body - Big Mess

FatCat Records

The debut album from Brighton based band, Public Body, rides in on massive drums and frenetic and restless legs. A certainty to put a spring in your step, Big Mess sits on a non-stop excursion of existential angst and a bone-dry disposition.

Big Mess is straight out traps with 'Break From Life'. Putting the day-to-day expectations for life on the shelf and sitting on idle is a requirements in these parts. Big Mess follows the up-and-at-it attitude that the intro track sets - through scenes set at a blistering pace. Frantic guitar-work, which, if you have listened to Public Body before, should come as no surprise - their signature sound is quite the schizophrenic fiasco. Catatonic in its back and forth, Public Body's sound never settles - there's always something else to be set off at. Scoffing in the face of disappointment with witty remarks - tongue-in-cheek bravado gets you through the day.

Big Mess is laced with intentional grooves - they’re here to get things moving. In its way? Out the way! No time for you. We can still have a good time, you can hang out and all that, you just have to hurry the fuck up. The clock talks in ticks, and we're now getting shit-talked closer to death. Tick-tick-tick he chatters all day long. These scabs are tired of being picked at. These fingers never settle on something that can't be made worse. These legs just wont sit still. Don't even start with this mind.

Public Body have delivered on the expectations set by EP's like the 'Flavour of Labour' released in 2022; a flavour of what was to come, if you will. Big Mess is short and sweet - a debut of ever-promising quality. Fun, fierce, and never-endingly sarcastic.

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