Big Special - National Average Shawn Lee Traversing the everyday in 2023

Traversing the everyday in 2023

intricately detailed stories within perfect three-and-a-half minute pop masterpieces

despite inherently somber subject matters of self-defeat

the cognitive dissonance between the song’s cadences and angry lyrics redolent of Bruce in his prime

or post-Darmstadtian chamber rigour

Big Special - National Average Shawn Lee Traversing the everyday in 2023Released 4th July 2025 The journey BIG SPECIAL have been on is one of the key stories told by their second album, National Average. And trust Big Special to invest those stories with wisdom, insight and the most absolute humanity. And these might be their stories, but the lessons speak to us all. And so National Average reflects the world as it is, as Big Special have seen it while grinding around the nation and screaming their poetry at the people.