Big Blood - First Aid Kit (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

Big Blood announces the upcoming release of another spellbinding LP, First Aid Kit, to be released collaboratively on Ba Da Bing Records and Feeding Tube Records. Out today, ‘1000 Times’ is a sincere teenage ode to crushing hard; intense and emotive psychedelic rock melodies are interwoven with orchestral harmonies and lulling guitar solos. All the while, the drum is steady and prominent - like a pulse. The record is out June 9th.

“She can be a real pain in the ass,” is how Big Blood’s Caleb Mulkerin and Colleen Kinsella describe having their daughter as a member of the band they formed in the wake of Cerberus Shoal’s dissolution. A band made up of family seems like an ideal situation. You get to play with those you love, and practicing/recording is always just a matter of going into the next room. “If you don’t have kids, I can imagine that is an obvious assumption,” Caleb says. “However, if you do have children, I don’t need to explain how much of an emotional mess this can be.”

While any fan of the band will tell you that no two albums sound very much alike, First Aid Kit displaying for the first time their affinity for the emotional effects of bands like The Cure, Bauhaus and The Clean, there’s a clear thread throughout all their records. Their songs achieve the double satisfaction of being immediate, catchy and memorable, while also revealing inner depths at repeated listens. Some of the best experimental music is cloaked as mundane.

First Aid Kit was recorded entirely at the family’s home onto 1” eight-track tape. It achieves the magic of capturing a moment and making a lasting impression. There aren’t many family bands, and there’s definitely no other band like this.

Tracklist
01. In My Head
02. Haunted
03. Candy Here I Come
04. Infinite Space
05. Ring Telephone Ring
06. Haunted Interlude
07. Never Ending Nightmare
08. Makes Me Wonder
09. 1000 Times
10. Weird Road Pt. 1
11. Gates of Steel
12. Spinning In The Wind