On 14 May 2020 The Big Dirty announced the 17 July 2020 release of their next album, "The Sex". To give us a taste of what we can expect, they tweeted a teaser for the first single the following day and now, inside the last month before the big album release-date, comes the second single "Sensual Lover".
Now, with such an obvious-sounding title, do we expect the usual Big Dirty double-(or, in their case, single)-entendre smut and in-(or in their case on)-your-face full-on hard-rocking? Or do we look forward to something mellow and grown up? The video trailer features guitarist C-Diddy, head bound and bandaged like a war-hero, brandishing an acoustic guitar with the rest of the guys in the desert adding a reenactment twist to the Jon Bon Jovi Dead Or Alive clip-setting.
When you're The Big Dirty, mellowing doesn't necessarily mean growing up, and while Dead Or Alive may set the tempo, the song builds through the vocal echoes and swelling (ooh err!) guitar effects through to the solo which has become these guys' staple. They can tie me to the bed, they will leave me there for dead and, like their version of Chris Isaak's Wicked Games on the hard-copy version of the last album, being haunted in the end is the least of it! You may expect one thing but James and the Northampton rockmeisters deliver something else again, as always.
The Big Dirty "Sensual Lover" - if this is what can be expected in July, pre-order the hell out of it! My copy is in the post and given the right conditions I would swim out to meet that shipment to get it here quicker!
PG (Jacky) Gleeson
21 June 2020
21 June 2020
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