⚡ Emerging from the West Midlands, Big Special speaks with a rare honesty on England’s current music scene.
The duo of Joe Hicklin and Callum Moloney fuses punk’s fury with the raw truth of spoken word — and this union transforms into an energy that is both poetic and destructive.
💥 “Plaintive Native”, a rebellion that begins like a confession.
The track, woven with electronic textures, hard drums, and Hicklin’s weathered voice, carries the inward rage of modern England and the broken rhythm of forgotten cities.
🎙️ Big Special, as in their album Postindustrial Hometown Blues, melts the system’s rot with the individual’s exhaustion in the same crucible — right in the heart of today, between empathy and anger.
The song is not just social commentary; it is a lament for a generation wrestling with its own roots.
Both an inner reckoning and a noisy act of resistance.
🔗 Apartment No:26 Note:
“Plaintive Native” blends Sleaford Mods’ harshness with Fontaines D.C.’s poetry.
Punk here is not a genre, but an attitude: telling pain unfiltered, directly.
Big Special fills industrial silence not with rage, but with meaning — every word a protest, every beat a breath.
