Around the middle of 2017, Big Scary seemed to be on the cusp of a hard-earned mainstream breakthrough: their third album, Animal, charted at #5 at the end of the year prior - and earned frontman Tom lansek an ARIA nod for Producer Of The Year - and the band were comfortably selling out theatres across the country. But after their second time playing Splendour In The Grass in July ’17, their hype train came to a screeching halt. Cue years of radio silence, while lansek kept the dream alive in other projects.
Big Scary reconvened at the dawn of the new decade, writing some two dozen songs that saw them freed from the pressures of success - lansek and drummer Jo Syme weren’t gunning for in the bag that lansek realised he hadn’t played a single guitar on it.
