BIG SPECIAL release new surprise album NATIONAL AVERAGE. featuring lead single ‘GOD SAVE THE PONY.’
Black Country duo BIG SPECIAL have returned in dramatic fashion, surprise releasing their second album NATIONAL AVERAGE. via SO Recordings. Alongside the album’s release, the band dropped a video for lead single ‘GOD SAVE THE PONY.’
The new track is a thunderous meditation on inner burdens, matching BIG SPECIAL’s existential grit with newly infused elements of funk and black humor. ‘GOD SAVE THE PONY.’ retains the raw power of their earlier work, but also signals growth, as the duo hone in on themes of moral reckoning, quiet resilience, and everyday struggle. The song is propelled by impassioned vocals and sharp instrumentation—hallmarks of the band’s visceral style.
Commenting on the new single, lead singer Joe Hicklin says:
“‘GOD SAVE THE PONY.’ is about the stones we carry. The different things that pull people down; the invisible weights that they have to drag through their everyday. On the personal level, it’s about reckoning with change. Reflecting on the moral obligations we have to ourselves and others, and the mixture of the failures and successes in sticking to those. The weight of following a personal moral line is heavy on everyone’s shoulders. The song is a recognition of this strain in ourselves and others, and a well wish to keep going, whatever you have that drags behind.”
‘GOD SAVE THE PONY.’ is out now, and NATIONAL AVERAGE. is streaming in full across all major platforms.
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