Coming in at number 26 on the Deli’s Best New Emerging Artists of 2010 poll (the full results can be seen here) Ridgewood, New Jersey based Big Troubles is comprised of Alex Craig and Ian Drennan, friends from high school, and Luka Usmiani and Samuel Franklin. Craig went to college in New York (where he met Franklin, the two had a class together), Drennan in Boston, and the two decided to record last summer after losing touch for a while. Talking about the interest focused on music from their county (Bergen County), Drennan says, “[Big Troubles] sort of tries to counter that by maybe not playing into what’s understood to be the ‘New Jersey sound." Despite this counter, Craig says that living in New York was a “soul-crushing, horrible experience” and that he would much rather live in Ridgewood. Big Troubles’ music is filled with references to 80’s synth pop and 90’s shoegaze, and Craig admits that it was almost a bonding experience, the two of them getting into the same music together. Their debut, Worry (full listening is enabled here), has vaguely hazy production skills but still manages to blow listeners away with their catchy tunes.
The band will be releasing of a new album in late August and is just announced a tour in support of Pains of Being Pure at Heart. Check out the tune from the upcoming album entitled "Misery" – some kind of shoegazer-pop song with Smashing Pumpkins and The Jesus and Mary Chain influences.
