Big|Brave announce new album, OST

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Big|Brave have announced a new album, their third in two years. On April 25 they’ll release OST via Thrill Jockey. Today they’ve released “innominate No. ii”, which you can hear below. A press release states that the concept behind the Montreal group’s latest album was “make a film score for a film that had yet to be created, to use minimal instrumentation, or more specifically not their standard band instruments, and to improvise within these parameters.”

Although this record could stand on its own, we envisioned it being paired with moving images, which introduced a fresh and exciting way of working,” said guitarist Mathieu Ball.

Vocalist/guitarist Robin Wattie adds, “The strings Mathieu used for his instrument came from a discarded piano thatch that had been laying around in the hallway of my tattoo studio for ages. It took a lot of work to get the strings off but then he made the instrument in only a few days. It blew my mind.”

OST follows 2023’s nature morte and 2024’s A chaos of flowers. The former is featured on our list of the 100 Best Albums of the 2020s So Far.

Big|Brave OST tracklist:

1. innominate Nº i
2. innominate Nº ii
3. innominate Nº iii
4. innominate Nº iv
5. innominate Nº v
6. innominate Nº vi
7. innominate Nº vii
8. innominate Nº viii

Big|Brave tour dates:

Mar. 27 – Leuven, BE – STUK ‡
Mar. 29 – Paris, FR – Main D’oeuvres ‡
Mar. 30 – Pau, FR – La Ferronnerie ‡
Mar. 31 – San Sebastian, ES – Dabadaba ‡
Apr. 2 – Barcelona, ES – Sala Vol ‡
Apr. 3 – Valencia, ES – 16 Toneladas ‡
Apr. 4 – Madrid, ES – FIAS Festival/Teatros del Canal
Apr. 5 – Braga, PT – Gnration
Apr. 6 – Lisbon, PT – ZDB ‡
Apr. 8 – Montpellier, FR – L’antirouille ‡
Apr. 9 – Grenoble, FR – Le Ciel ‡
Apr. 10 – Fribourg, CH – Fri-Son ‡
Apr. 11 – Piacenza, IT – Warmup Desert Fox Fest ‡
Apr. 12 – Innsbruck, AT – pmk ‡
Apr. 13 – Zagreb, HR – Mocvara ‡
Apr. 15 – Prague, CZ – Bike Jesus ‡
Apr. 16 – Berlin, DE – Neue Zukunft ‡
Apr. 17 – Braunschweig, DE – B58 ‡
Apr. 19 – Luxembourg, LU – OOTC Festival
Apr. 20 – Tilburg, NL – Roadburn
Apr. 22 – Cambridge, UK – The Portland Arms ‡
Apr. 23 – London, UK – The Garage – A sonic face off with The Bug

‡ w/ MJ Guider