Big Light Releases New Album ‘Anemone’

Bay Area rockers Big Light unveiled Anemone, the band’s second studio album of 2020. Anemone features seven songs mostly made during lockdown that also incorporates recordings from Oakland’s Coyote Hearing and the Panoramic House in Stinson Beach.

The release of Anemone comes on the heels of Ships, which Big Light issued back in April. Ships was the band’s first studio album since 2014’s The Well Wishers.

Read a statement from Big Light about Anemone:

We recorded these songs at Coyote Hearing in Oakland in 2019 and Panoramic House in Stinson Beach, as well as our respective homes in 2020. This is the first Big Light record produced and engineered solely by us, and it was mostly made during lockdown.

These songs may be among our most personal to-date, and a conscious effort was made to focus more on vocals and lyrics this time around. These songs are all anchored by a simple arrangement written on acoustic guitar, and as a rule of thumb, can be played that way.

With everything so uncertain right now, we’re happy with how this one came out, not only because of how the music sounds, but also because we’ve proved to ourselves that we can make a Big Light record during these strange times.

Thank you for listening.

Listen to the new album below: