Big Special share powerful new track ‘Butcher’s Bin’

Big Special have shared their new single ‘Butcher’s Bin’, a stinging riposte against oppression of the working class.

Released today (March 13), the new single is the latest to be taken from the duo’s upcoming debut album Postindustrial Hometown Blues, which is set for release on May 10 via SO Recordings.

The latest offering follows on from lead track ‘Dust Off/Start Again’ and sees the duo dishing out heavy synths as they hit out against attitudes towards the working class.

“‘Butcher’s Bin’ is about class awareness and the realisation that the working classes are used as nothing but a commodity and set against each other at every turn, their existence trivialised and struggles denied; the off cuts tossed to feed the rabid hounds of neoliberalism,” said lead singer Joe Hicklin.

“The song is about all of this from the perspective of declining mental health whilst trying to make a living as an artist and to break through in a time and place where a life In art is seen as a luxury granted to those of a higher social class or a fruitless pursuit for idealistic fools.”

Discussing the new album as a whole, Hicklin added: “POSTINDUSTRIAL HOMETOWN BLUES is an album about depression. It’s about the different shapes it takes; personal, social, generational… and it’s about coming face to face with those ghosts and what we do or how we feel when that happens.

“The album offers no answers, it is just an honest expression of a working-class experience in modern England through the eyes of ill mental health, a pursuit of art and political disenchantment; a story of rumination, realisation and reaction.”

Big Special will tour the UK in April and May and you can buy tickets here. In October, the duo will play their biggest UK show to date at London’s O2 Kentish Town Forum. Tickets for that show can be purchased here.