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Crafting wide-eyed, often heartbroken songs that borrow from folk, grunge, and dream pop,
Big Deal is the project of native Californian
Kacey Underwood and North Londoner
Alice Costelloe. They were each playing in different bands when
Costelloe's mother, who worked at the school where
Underwood was teaching music, suggested that the pair play together. After releasing a handful of singles, the duo's intimate debut,
Lights Out, arrived on Mute in 2011.
Costelloe and
Underwood drafted a pair of friends to make
Big Deal a quartet for their second album. Produced by Rory Attwell, 2013's
June Gloom borrowed from the noisy and dreamy sides of '90s rock. While making their third album, the self-funded
Say Yes, the band parted ways with Mute and had to start from scratch when the laptop containing their demos was stolen. Recorded in ten days,
Say Yes was released in June 2016 on Fat Cat. ~ Heather Phares