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Big Fresh, a ten-member art/pop collective, has expanded like the universe since 2009’s ambitious home-recorded B.F.F. (Big Fresh Forever); they’ve been joined by new singers and multi-instrumentalists Faith Diamond (Satellite Giant) and Kimberly Smith (Bear Medicine, Frigid Kitty). With John Ferguson and Ben Phelan having joined world-touring indie band The Apples in stereo (and Ferguson contributing substantially on their most recent record), Big Fresh shows have been sighted, but are farther between—yet in the studio, madly writing and producing, the band has evolved like a star cluster. The result is a stellar LP lying in a galactic sector between Tusk and R. Stevie Moore. Adding horns and the lush voices of Diamond and Smith into their elaborate arrangements, brings out the Fleetwood Mac influence on Big Fresh, and the R. Stevie Moore element is no accident: Vocalist/songwriter John Ferguson spent his childhood having the hyper-creative lo-fi pioneer as a sort of uncle, appearing on Moore’s recordings and immersed in his process. Moore contributed guitar parts to the album. Big Fresh’s newest EP, Fall Preview, is self-produced by the Kentucky avant-garde pop collective and engineered by electro-wizard Craig Morris in his hand-built Garden Gate Studio (The Apples in stereo, Thee American Revolution, Deathray Davies, Neutral Milk Hotel, Laminated Cat), the new album explodes with inventive catchiness and production details. More about Big Fresh and Fall Preview: ● Shining indie-pop hits somewhere between The Cars, Fleetwood Mac and Elephant 6. ● Big Fresh is a ten-member pop collective including horns and three keyboard players. ● Lo-fi recording pioneer R. Stevie Moore has served as an uncle and mentor to Big Fresh singer/multi-instrumentalist John Ferguson from childhood to the present. Ferguson has appeared on Moore’s recordings and radio shows since he was a toddler. ● R. Stevie Moore plays guitar on “Here Is The Deal” from their last release, Moneychasers. ● Singer John Ferguson has played keyboards in The Apples in stereo since 2006, and made songwriting contributions to the recent album Travellers in Space and Time by the influential Elephant 6 band. In addition, guitarist Ben Phelan is a touring synthesizer, guitar and trumpet player with The Apples. ● Keyboard player Ben Fulton played synthesizer and bass in ultra-lo-fi band Ulysses, along with Ferguson and Apples in stereo singer Robert Schneider. ● Desperate Spirits is an underground label specializing in weirdo pop, psychedelic and experimental records, operated by John Ferguson, Trevor Tremaine, Kimberly Smith, and Rob Theakston ● Fall Preview EP was engineered and mixed by Craig Morris in his modified garage Garden Gate Studio, where most of the audio gear is hand-built by Morris himself (selected engineering and mixing credits: Thee American Revolution, The Apples in stereo, Neutral Milk Hotel, Ideal Free Distribution, The Deathray Davies, Laminated Cat). .