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Big Spiders Back

  • Beginning as a bedroom recording project in Seattle over the summer of  2007, electronic artist Big Spider’s Back has amassed a growing following in the Northwest music community, along with his newly adopted home in Brooklyn. Combining haunting vocals with swirling layers of lo-fi psychedelia, synthesizers and field recordings, his music alternates between soaring crescendos and dense thickets of electronic ambience. The result is one big, blissed out cacophony. 

    BSB’s 2009 debut EP, “Warped,” garnered praise from critics across the web, and in print. The EP’s title track was awarded “Song of the Day” by Seattle independent radio stalwart KEXP. In addition, the soaring lo-fi anthem “Perfect Machine” received attention from the likes of Pitchfork, The Stranger, The Seattle Times and a plethora of online zines and blogs.

    Along with his recording projects, Big Spider’s Back has also collaborated with various video artists, lending his music to installations and his own live performances. His debut album, "Memory Man," is out now on Circle Into Square.

     

    Impose | Memory Man
    "Rides equal parts Mumbai vibes and the guitar atmospherics of the Pacific Northwest - the whale sounds could be from either location."
    Pitchfork | Warped
    "Certainly sounds like the work of more than one bedroom-dwelling knob-twister."
    FMLY | Memory Man
    "The drops Yair creates leave room for environment to fill, and his comforting vocals wash into an audible hug for everyone. "
    Obscure Sound | Warped
    "The songs on Warped develop with such precision and imagination that getting there is part of the great journey itself."
    The Stranger
    “His songs attractively meld minimalist repetition with muted sunshine-pop melodiousness. Rubinstein's followed Jonathan Richman's sage advice and is not letting his youth go to waste.”
    RCRD LBL | Memory Man
    "As Big Spider's Back, Yair Rubinstein's music is notable for bridging two ostensibly unrelated, but in fact somewhat similar, styles: dream pop and hip-hop-influenced electronic music."

    Tracks

    • Dead Channel
      Memory Man
    • Warped
      Warped
    • Perfect Machine
      Warped

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