The Band

Big Science was born in the fall of 2007 in different practice spaces, apartments, skulls, bars, and chests, of the great city of Chicago. Long time friends from days spent playing in dark bars, dingy basements, and smoke-filled lofts in a band known as The North Atlantic:  Jason Hendrix and Jason Richards, made the move from San Diego to Chicago, in order to begin a new project with longtime friend/producer/engineer Jason Clark. Having discussed the impending union nearly into the ground, everyone was eager to get to work.  By shear luck, and the astute character judgement of a mutual friend, the lineup became complete with Jeremy Pena joining as drummer. 

The four then proceeded to practice heavily for the next year or so, hammering out an avalanche of material, documenting, drinking, and generally spending more time with each other than one might deem healthy. In January of 2009 they released the self-produced/engineered, The Coast of Nowhere EP. The five songs are a melding of the streamlined pop simplicity of new wave, the pragmatic minimalism of krautrock,  the lyrical complexity of nineties indie rock, and the lush reverberating layers of shoe gaze. The songs capture a certain kind of wonder and excitement found in the youthful epics of eighties post punk and the early days of alternative college radio, when pop and artistic experimentation existed as strange and beautiful bed-mates.

Their sound is both intricate and expansive, with Richards and Peña providing a nimble and solid foundation over which Hendrix and Clark build echoing soundscapes. Simply: another band made up of four friends, entrenched, dedicated, and in love with the act of making music that captivates and exalts the tones of being, of youth, of the city.