(Big)Pig Post Video for New Single “Little Giant”
Some seven years and one added member later, Los Angeles heavy rockers (Big)Pig re-emerge with a series of three singles to follow-up their 2016 debut album, Grande Puerco (review here), the second and latest of which is “Little Giant,” the video for which you can see below.
The rawer punkish aspects of the debut aren’t absent by any means from “Little Giant,” and certainly an intensity of purpose is manifest in the aptly-titled sub-90-second fuzz assault of “Beatdown,” which they put out in February and can be seen/heard near the bottom of this post, but no question the tones have thickened out in accord with bassist Kyle Norvell joining guitarist/vocalist Dino Von Lalli (also Fatso Jetson) and drummer Benny Macias in the now-trio. Bolstered by production helmed by Mathias Schneeberger, “Little Giant” stretches over five minutes — ground the band touched on the debut, to be sure — and sees the band digging into an instrumental midsection with chemistry and purpose, heavy like a rampage but not at all uncontrolled. Between it and “Beatdown,” they crush as one would hope and herald more to come in exciting, unforgiving and unpredictable fashion. I don’t know what their plans are, but they sound like a band ready to go, whether that means signing to whichever label mamages to snag them first, do another record, tour into unknown perpetuity, whatever. They’re ready for it.
They’ll play Ripplefest Texas later this summer, and the video for “Little Giant” makes a resounding argument for seeing them if you can. Along with footage of the three-piece hitting it powered by a small generator in front of some desert mountain or other, Von Lalli, Macias and Norvell play out a story of what seems to be a drug deal getting busted but has a twist on that worth sticking around for and even a post-credits scene in the spirit of a Marvel movie perhaps setting up a sequel. In any case, among the highlights and dense riffs, don’t miss the play-money $500 bill and Macias‘ cop-walk before the orange-jumpsuited Norvell splits out and leaves Von Lalli, literally, holding the bag. Good fun abounds, audio and visual.
Not sure when the third single is coming, but here’s looking forward:
(Big)Pig, “Little Giant” official video
Music recorded by Mathias Schneeberger
Video Directed by Tyler Sampson
Video Edited by Jake Schabath
Camera Man 1-Kevin Ryan
Camera Man 2-Jake Schabath
Video written by Kyle Norvell
Pig head-Mopar Mo
Performance by (Big)Pig.
(Big)Pig is:
Benny Macias – drums
Kyle Norvell – bass
Dino Von Lalli – guitar/vocals
