Last summer Big Deal released a stunning second album, June Gloom (via Mute). They took the spare, largely acoustic template from debut record, Lights Out, and beefed up their heart-achingly gorgeous songs with a full band and heaps of distortion. It proved that made up London-born Alice Costelloe and California's Kacey Underwood had more in them than the uncomfortable hush of "Talk" and "Homework": they could really—excuse the phrase—rock out. Take those boomy drums and layered vocals of "Dream Machines" as evidence.
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