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There’s nothing ordinary about the fabled Los Angeles quartet Bigelf. In fact, even the extraordinary are crushed in the wake of a heroic bombast so brilliant, you can’t help but be swept adrift by the doomed mist of infectious melodies and chilling harmonies that collide with an otherworldly embrace of the psychedelic on “Cheat the Gallows,” the band’s debut release for Linda Perry’s Custard Records.
The epic album is the soundtrack for new world disorder. We’re talking about a pop-cultural phenomenon shaped by the muse of Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Queen and The Beatles. Bigelf are massive in stature, muscular in tone and beautifully diabolic, oozing with the credibility of artistic savant and ironclad integrity.

“The creativity of psychedelic rock and the limitless horizons of prog rock are totally gone today. There are too many formulas, too many rules, and everybody is just too bogged down with singles, sales, and their MySpace pages… We still care about pressing boundaries,” says the frontman.

At the forefront of the musical melee is lead single “Money It’s Pure Evil,” a master class in marrying blues-based, classic rock tendencies with today’s more mainstream fancies for minimalist rock and roll missives.

“Superstar” submits to the saucy seduction of a rock and roll sellout, and “Hydra” is a frenzied rush of steel-toed swagger that drips with chaotic power and is drenched in hallucinatory Bigelf dynamics.

One of Fox’s favorite reviews of his band hailed that Bigelf are “30 years behind and five years ahead of what’s happening.” It’s a line the frontman is proud of, and loves to repeat. “The concept behind Bigelf has been to take strong, classic melodies and dark, neurotic songwriting, and synthesize them with demonic guitar riffs and analog keyboard wizardry. There were few bands that did both, so there wasn’t a template or blueprint to follow… The Beatles and Black Sabbath, at the same time, is what has always come natural to us, and that has always been the genesis of it all.”

With the release of their “Closer to Doom” EP in 1995, Bigelf established themselves as founding fathers of the psychedelic doom movement that spawned the Los Angeles stoner-rock scene. In the 13 years since, they’ve released two full-length albums and attained cult phenomenon status overseas, most notably in Europe and the Scandinavian homeland of Ace Mark and Duffy Snowhill. Both those albums were met by major-label recording contracts that promised worldwide success, but instead resulted in the corporate backwash that has defined the modern music industry.

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