BIG SMOKE - Time is Golden LP compilation “When I was a teenager

“When I was a teenager in Sacramento in the late ’70s

which is another name for the heavenly city of the New Jerusalem that shall descend unto earth at the end of the Apocalypse

distorted guitar that absolutely devastates

Discography 2010-2012 drags a perfectly malformed body of work

—Brian Turner

BIG SMOKE - Time is Golden LP compilation “When I was a teenagerOpening track Something Good is a buoyant number with an addictive country flavour and organ style keys, while Best of You stuns with its gigantic chorus, culminating in a grand outro that feels life affirming. When You Dance is an eight minute epic that dazzles with its harmonies before reaching its crescendo, the song carried out by a saxophone that provides a moment of pure bliss. Closing track Honey I is gloriously triumphant, but knowing the