LAWN - Bigger Sprout LP (colour vinyl)

Limited edition clear aqua colour vinyl.

Highly recommended.

"NOLA indie rock duo Lawn released their debut EP Big Sprout Oct 2016. Nearly 7 years later, they've paired them alongside four new songs that make up Bigger Sprout. The title implicates DeMagalhaes and Folger as not quite fully grown yet, but a measure closer than when they began.

Listening to each half of the double EP back-to-back confirms as much: there's a considerable amount of slack on the back-ended Big Sprout that has since evolved and tightened up on Bigger Sprout. It's easy to make direct comparisons between stylistic counterparts: the brooding post-punk of the former's "Prefect" draws a path to the latter's "Medicine Forever" and "Night Life." Whereas "Prefect" bull-headedly marches forth at a spirited yet predictable rhythm, "Medicine Forever" teems with nervous, jittery energy at odds with its metrical cowboy strut, replete with the semi-abstract political musings you'd expect from a Parquet Courts stanza ("Red for the blood that is spilled by the gunners / And blue like the ocean and sky right above them / And yellow riches that make a man feel so alive / I'm alive").

The development on the pop front may still be more pronounced. Opener "Down" is a cut of late-eighties/early-nineties jangle pop worship pristinely written to the point that it kills its idols. With a primary melody addictive in tone and brilliantly simplistic in movement, it's unlikely more than a handful of guitar hooks this year will compare.
Bigger Sprout serves as a document of progress: not one born of the abandonment of the past self, but of putting more meat on the bones of bygone days.

A diverse collection of new material accompanied by a yearbook look-back at the origins of Lawn, Bigger Sprout is worth a listen for its solid songcraft just as much as it is for its meta-commentary on growing up through your twenties: even if just a little." - Post-Trash

“somehow reminds me of Hüsker Dü. good stuff.” – Bandcamp comment