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In 2013 it's easy to find a band espousing InchpunkInch aesthetics; less so a band whose creative modus operandi is to apply that kind of uninhibited and spiritually combative aesthetics to the songwriting process, without a nod to the sound and pageantry of the ostensible contemporary vanguard.Big French is that band. Their first full-length, Downtown Runnin, consists of eighteen short songs that burn out before becoming rote. Unmoored in the zeitgeist, the band covers a wide variety of material, from structurally complex power ballads InchWould Not TryInch, InchDowntown RunninInch to dreamy smears InchAtlantaInch, InchWhaleInch, heavier postpunk InchUngungungungoneInch and arcade prog InchPaybackInch. As the album rushes through it's short duration, notes of disparate influences appear briefly, subsumed by the next; Big French is loath to sit still, whether stylistically, harmonically or in attitude. Album Tracks 1. I Love Her 2. Dowtown Runnin 3. Using the House 4. How Many Times 5. You Can Snail with Those 6. Payback 7. Oh No 8. Night Channel 4 9. Ungungungungone 10. In the Morning of the World 11. When I Was Blind 12. Alison 13. Atlanta 14. In the Morning of the World 15. Would Not Try 16. Ungungunggone 17. Impossible Dream 18. Whale
