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Lights Out [CD]

Big Deal Audio CD
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Using only two voices and two guitars, Alice Costelloe and Kacey Underwood create music that’s unfettered by the constraints of a traditional band. Their sound is gauzy but spartan; his vocal, dusky, hers crystalline, twinned in a spectral haze. From the first song they ever wrote together, the distractedly sweet ‘Homework’, to the celestial drift of ‘Pi’ Big Deal’s music is unflinchingly honest,… Read more in Amazon's Big Deal Store

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  • Audio CD (5 Sep 2011)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: CD
  • Label: Mute Artists
  • ASIN: B005CAAXLE
  • Other Editions: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 46,009 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Listen  2. Chair 2:52£0.89
Listen  3. Cool Like Kurt 3:34£0.89
Listen  4. Swoon 2:52£0.89
Listen  5. Homework 2:43£0.89
Listen  6. Talk [Explicit] 3:19£0.89
Listen  7. With The World At My Feet 3:22£0.89
Listen  8. Locked Up 4:19£0.89
Listen  9. Summer Cold 3:04£0.89
Listen10. Visions 2:31£0.89
Listen11. Seraphine 4:09£0.89
Listen12. Pi 4:30£0.89


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BBC Review

Whenever a new, fashionably-attired boy/girl duo appears on the UK music scene, especially one as handsome as Big Deal's Alice Costelloe and Kacey Underwood, certain Ting Tings-shaped nightmares are inescapable. It's an involuntary style-over-substance association, just one of the unfortunate by-products of that pair's 15 minutes of ubiquity. Luckily, Big Deal's brand of layered guitars and fragile vocal interplay sits comfortably several leagues above the aforementioned nonsense, its melodies and lyrical themes becoming steadily more intoxicating with every listen.

On debut album Lights Out, Underwood and Costelloe have taken the bold decision to leave out any hint of a rhythm section, each track relying solely on the pair's sparring guitars (a mix of strummed acoustics and shimmering electrics) and shared vocals. At first listen this seems a shame, especially as some of the album's faster numbers (Chair, With the World at My Feet) would doubtless gain some extra crunch from the backing of a full band. With repeated listens, however, the wisdom of the decision is borne out, the sketch-like quality of the songs shining a brighter spotlight on the gorgeous melodies Big Deal are so frequently capable of delivering.

Costelloe takes the lead on vocals, which makes sense as the majority of the album's tracks positively ache with a feminine and specifically teenage romantic yearning. High school days might be behind her, but these heartsick odes are delivered with such conviction that it's clear these bittersweet memories are an abiding preoccupation rather than a calculated affectation. Lyrically, she's set herself up as an indie rock Lolita, halfway between vulnerable teenager and precocious siren. "Take me to your bed, don't take me home / I wanna be old, I wanna be older," she keens on Cool Like Kurt, and Homework finds a distracted Costelloe's school grades sacrificed at the altar of obsession with some undisclosed paramour. She builds such a complete picture that Underwood's somewhat forgettable voice suffers by comparison on the tracks where he takes the reins (Pi, Summer Cold). His vocal contribution seems to work best as a support and counterpoint to Costelloe's starring role.

Far from any negative presumptions, Big Deal have crafted a winning debut of lovelorn late-summer gems, taking their cues from the sunny melancholy of Best Coast or the emphatic melodies of Giant Drag, the latter's irreverence replaced with an earnest portrait of love at its youngest and most fragile. Whether for its bounty of warm guitar textures or for its still-rare insight into a distinctly female perspective on young love, Lights Out is surprising, sincere and, above all, a success.

--Chris Lo

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Sunday Times Culture, July 31, 2011

An American (Underwood) and a Brit (Costelloe), Big Deal are a London-based duo who met when the former gave the latter music lessons. With songs featuring no more than tow guitras and shared vocals, they occupy the minimalist end of the spectrum, where nuance and dynamics are favoured over blunderbuss lyrics and gratuitous noise; they have, therefore, much in common with similar boy-girl outfits making woozy, reverby 1960-sleaning music such as the Kills, Cults, Summer Camp and Best Coast - and, on the evidence of tehir early singles and thrillingly good debut album, Lights Out, are every bit as great as any of those acts, with added frisson in their music generated by the lyrics' preoccupation with lust, doomed romance and fugitive love. Stunning.

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Brilliant 23 Oct 2011
Format:Audio CD
This first album is extremely addictive. There's a sweet repetitive sadness there which - surprisingly enough - doesn't get old after the first few listens, perhaps because of the band's appropriate lack of flash and melodrama.
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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beautiful, feels like the progression dirty guitars wanted to make, but were always afraid to.

the lyrics are amazing, and alice is only 18, or maybe kc writes them, who knows, it's not a boy girl vocal in the traditional sense, they compliment each other, give the songs angst and beauty all at the same time.

this is such a great debut album, so excited to hear what comes next.

talk is probably my favourite, cos, ya know, all i wanna do is talk, seeing you, does, indeed, freak me out.

but my favourite line is 'i'm a mess, i'm a wreak, but you wouldn't know, 'cos i'm at my best when i'm with you'

stunning
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Moldy not Mouldy 16 Jan 2012
Format:Audio CD
Have listened to this a few times now,i'm a poor listener so albums have to be immediate,this one isn't.

It's crept up on me the songs are essentially raking over failed love-- the raking is powerful. Essentially anti -folk in feel but with more emotional gravity

one track unaccountably gets me thinking of the gutter twins.

It's more of a peach of an album than a mouldy one
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