{"id":38771,"date":"2023-03-29T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=38771"},"modified":"2023-03-19T19:09:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T23:09:25","slug":"big-loser-announces-new-ep-shares-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=38771","title":{"rendered":"Big Loser announces new EP + shares music video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In April of 2020, Austin indie-punk outfit Big Loser released a fantastic full length titled&nbsp;\u2018love you, barely living\u2019&nbsp;via&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tumblr.us15.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=be5049c2305a41deaf4ede038&amp;id=101efa2857&amp;e=3e72377c12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Black Numbers<\/a>.&nbsp;It was equal parts emotive and melodic with self-deprecating lyrics sung with a whole lot of passion. After completing a tour throughout the US and Canada in 2022, Big Loser hunkered down at The Sandwich Shoppe (Durham, NC) to record a new EP titled&nbsp;\u2018Left on Delmar Drive\u2019&nbsp;and now they are ready to release it<em>.<\/em>&nbsp;<em>I&#8217;m Rubber, You&#8217;re Glue<\/em> continues with the self-deprecating theme as guitarist\/vocalist Chase&nbsp;Spruiell belts out &#8220;it must be shit to be you&#8221; repeatedly. The new single is streaming on all of your preferred digital platforms now, but the band also put together a&nbsp;music video&nbsp;to accompany it that you can watch via YouTube below. Digital pre-orders for&nbsp;\u2018Left on Delmar Drive\u2019&nbsp;are available via&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/tumblr.us15.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=be5049c2305a41deaf4ede038&amp;id=2ac6177acb&amp;e=3e72377c12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Black Numbers<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ui8geEh7Vfo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>More about Big Loser<\/strong><br><br>What some fans don\u2019t know and may never understand is that most music is made out of necessity\u2014that is, if the musicians don\u2019t write and record their songs, if they don\u2019t perform them for the world, the feelings might erupt through much more toxic means.<br><br>Take Chase Spruiell, who writes and performs music as Big Loser. His newest EP&nbsp;\u2018Left on Delmar Drive,\u2019 released by the Black Numbers in the spring of 2023, is an exercise in exorcism, of purging the negative to make room for the positive. \u201c<em>I knew I wanted to write an EP specifically about this relationship I went through,\u201d<\/em> Spruiell says. \u201c<em>She was certainly not the right partner for me and, deep down, I knew that. But I was so codependent that I would rather have been with her than be alone. Because of that, it ended up being a brutal relationship, and I endured a lot of passive-aggression, gaslighting, manipulation, and verbal abuse. Obviously, I fucked up too and was definitely not perfect, but the fog really clears when a relationship ends and you&#8217;re able to see things for what they really are.\u201d<\/em><br><br>Though only four songs long,&nbsp;\u2018Left on Delmar Drive\u2019&nbsp;runs listeners through an emotional gamut. The EP starts with <em>Resentment #9<\/em>, which strings a series of sobering realizations\u2014the sort that make breakups seem inevitable\u2014against a backdrop of gentle acoustic chords. Spruiell\u2019s voice is unassuming here, heavy with Texas twang, as well as on <em>I&#8217;m Rubber, You&#8217;re Glue<\/em>, a song with grumbling guitars and humming momentum. \u201c<em>It must be shit to be you,\u201d<\/em> he croons during the chorus\u2014a dig at his ex, but also an insight from a healthier perspective. These songs are about codependency, but also about having the strength to walk away, to process the poison in a healthy way, to view the world from a new place. <em>\u201cIt was a huge time of growth for me,\u201d<\/em> Spruiell adds, \u201c<em>because I was realizing what I was: a white knuckling sober dude who was still suffering from the addiction of codependence. In seeing that, I was able to see my ex for who she really was, too, when I wasn&#8217;t blinded by my codependence.\u201d<\/em><br><br>But&nbsp;\u2018Left on Delmar Drive\u2019 is about seeing oneself in new, healthier ways as well. When Big Loser started working their last full-length&nbsp;\u2018Love You, Barely Living\u2019 in 2020, Spruiell had high expectations for the record. He put a lot of stress and pressure on himself to make it perfect.<em> \u201cI wasn&#8217;t the best person to be around,\u201d<\/em> Spruiell admits. \u201c<em>Left on Delmar Drive was the opposite. I just let things unfold as they should and didn&#8217;t try to control everything\u2014try being the key word. It definitely allowed me to be more collaborative, which I fucking enjoyed so much with Scotty [Sandwich, who recorded the EP]. He was amazing to work with, and I loved pretty much all of his ideas.\u201d<\/em><br><br><em>Logistics<\/em>, the EP\u2019s final track, puts that personal growth on full display. The song is is a pick-up packed with belongings trucking down the highway to anywhere else. As guitars grunt and drums thump, Spruiell sings, \u201c<em>The further I get away from you \/ The easier it is to have a clearer view,\u201d<\/em> like he\u2019s shouting from the driver\u2019s side window. But during the album\u2019s grand finale, the song softens and slows, strips itself down to piano and a shimmering guitar. Here, Spruiell sings, \u201c<em>You left me on Delmar Drive with the rent not paid at all \/ I used to not see you, my eyes closed, I ignored it all \/ You keep the lies you thought up in the dark spot of your heart \/ I\u2019ll keep my eyes open, now I see you, I know what you are.\u201d<\/em> These lines serve as the album\u2019s epiphany, the realization that kicks the song into drive one more time so it can cruise into the sunset.<br><br>Ultimately, a song like <em>Logistics<\/em>, is as much about escaping a toxic relationship as it is breaking free a harmful state of mind. Big Loser\u2019s songs, then, are both the means and ends of Spruiell\u2019s growth. \u201d<em>It&#8217;s hard not to parallel the band&#8217;s growth with my own growth,<\/em>\u201d he concludes, \u201c<em>because it&#8217;s always been my main project. But, since the end of that relationship, I have grown tremendously as a person and have transferred my mindset from wanting to kill myself when the world doesn&#8217;t unfold how I want it to accepting whatever the universe has in store for me\u2014for better or for worse.\u201d<\/em> For Spruiell, Left of Delmar Drive was made out of necessity\u2014to grow and heal, sure, but also survive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"400\" width=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mcusercontent.com\/be5049c2305a41deaf4ede038\/_compresseds\/592e5e97-2fc6-e21b-1a0d-0d3d9a257bb4.jpg?resize=400%2C400&#038;ssl=1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>In April of 2020, Austin indie-punk outfit Big Loser released a fantastic full length titled&nbsp;\u2018love you, barely living\u2019&nbsp;via&nbsp;Black Numbers.&nbsp;It was equal parts emotive and melodic <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=38771\" title=\"Big Loser announces new EP + shares music video\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,23,28,29,30,1907],"tags":[11065,438,11069,11066],"class_list":["post-38771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guitar-rock","category-indie","category-music","category-music-video","category-new-release","category-news","tag-big-loser","tag-ep","tag-im-rubber-youre-glue","tag-left-on-delmar-drive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/C4BB5735-5C37-46ED-AC7A-E557D23D7068.jpeg?fit=800%2C450","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-a5l","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21169,"url":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=21169","url_meta":{"origin":38771,"position":0},"title":"Born Ruffians announce &#8216;RUFF&#8217; digital-only deluxe edition + &#8216;XTRA RUFF&#8217; EP","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"April 6, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Born Ruffians will release a digital-only deluxe edition of\u00a0'RUFF'\u00a0and 'XTRA RUFF' EP on April 22. 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