mind the driftWow. Lately the word “impressed” seems to apply to less and less music. For Big Business though, two words apply: fucking impressed. Unfortunately I haven’t had the pleasure to listen to their previous album, which apparently was minus the guitarist Toshi Kasai leaving the set up of the band with a bass and a drum kit. I am very eager to do so though after the first listen of Mind the Drift. Different aspects of explosive music evolve during the album within a metal context, a fact that makes you wonder how does this possibly work? So damn, successfully? The vocals of Jarred Warren have an extreme interchange ability and often a vintage electricity that tingles you music brain nerves through different decades and resemblances always maintaining a very unique style though. The drumming has a voice of its own and conjures up imaginative beats that kill any speck of predictability one might rush to assume. A strikingly amiable surprise is the organ - a rock n roll reminiscence - that appears in the most spot-on way and away from the cheesy tendency of heavy metal Golgotha to epicness tradition. This is definitely an album that will stay in top lists of headbangers, metalheads and general rockers. -- xrysafenia danai.
:: Big Business/Mind The Drift - Hydra Head/Indigo.
