Lights Out

Big Deal | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 24, 2012)
• Original Release Date: 2011
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Mute U.S.
• ASIN: B006KEO2RC
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #111,075 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Distant Neighborhood

2. Chair

3. Cool Like Kurt

4. Swoon

5. Homework

6. Talk

7. With The World At My Feet

8. Locked Up

9. Summer Cold

10. Visions

11. Seraphine

12. Pi

Editorial Reviews

With the strum of an acoustic guitar set against the fuzzed out chords of an electric guitar and the tones of a boy / girl vocal, the London-based duo announced their arrival in the summer of last year. Since then Kacey Underwood and Alice Costelloe (aka Big Deal) have been making waves with their tales of teen angst and adult compromise. Lights Out, co-produced by Underwood and Dean Reid, emerges from its bedroom beginnings as a collection of 12 deeply personal songs with universal appeal, innately tapping into the innocence, insecurity, wonder and (sometimes unrequited) love and lust of relationships. These are songs which are structurally sparse yet emotively rich, sweet and seductive yet raw and jagged. Big Deal have quickly become a hotly-tipped British buzz artist, drawing comparisions to The XX, Beach House, Sonic Youth and The Lemonheads

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars A stripped down Fairport Convention meets and unplugged Kurt Cobain, February 5, 2012

By 

Robert Carraher "The Dirty Lowdown" (Portland, OR) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lights Out (Audio CD)

What happens when surf legend Dick Dale's guitar tech meets an English school girl from an artistic household? Sounds like a movie script, doesn't it? Well, I'll tell you what happens, because it's a Big Deal.

Alice Costelloe is that English school girl. Her grandmother gave her a guitar when she was six, and she still composes on it, even though it's too small. Her voice is dreamy. Beguiling, Sweet even. But the lyrics aren't all sweet and innocent. While captivating, the lyrics are real. Dealing with real life doubts, emotions and inanities.

"I'm just hoping you slip up, Miss a step, fall into my arms, Mess with my head"

The second half of this duet is American Kacey Underwood. A rebellious rock n roller from the California desert who grew up on Zeppelin, Hendrix, Metallica and Depeche Mode. His was a strict, religious family. He taught himself guitar when he found his brothers guitar hidden under a bed. He hit the road, and eventually became Dick Dale's guitar tech. He quit that job for an English education at Cambridge, but school wasn't in his blood. He dropped out and eventually earned a living in his band, Little Death. He taught music at a girls school to make ends meet and that is where he met Alice.

"I'll make it work, you're cool like Kurt"

They hit it off well, they started writing songs together, and Alice's family became Kacey's second family. From the first track, a picture of a stripped down Fairport Convention and an unplugged Nirvana entered my head. The music has a folk feel but is deeply personal rather than social commentary. The chemistry is captivating. When you hit play, get ready to stop whatever you are doing and listen. The songs are infectious.

Big Deal consists of one acoustic guitar and one electric guitar. It's honest music, it's about the song. It's captivating, but restrained. The songs sound as if they were com- posed in the bedroom and the emotion is flammable and the flame is mesmerizing.

"I'm a mess, I'm a wreck, But you wouldn't know it `cause I'm at my best when with you"

18 months after they met. Many shows behind them and Big Deal offers up Lights Out. Released on January 24th it's their debut album. No doubt, we'll be hearing from this couple for a good long while, and that is beautiful to think about.

The Dirty Lowdown

5.0 out of 5 stars Can't Stop Playing It!!, January 24, 2012

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Puffin Daddy (Washington) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lights Out (Audio CD)

Simple, complex, clean with melodies and lyrics (and vocals) that will drive you crazy as you try to stop singing them in your head! Big Deal ARE a big deal!