New Music | Big Tree – Little EP

[T]he New England winter mix of snow and rain beats down relentlessly outside the door as I search through the emails containing info on new bands and their latest singles sent to us every day, hoping to hear something that pulls me out of my gloomy day doldrums. The Bay Area band Big Tree, and their new 6-song EP titled Little, was just what I needed to shake off the cold and put a smile on my face.  So, fellow music lovers, it is my responsibility to pass along these San Francisco sounds and brighten your day as well.

Leaving Brooklyn behind in late 2011, right before the release of the their sophomore album This New Year, may have been somewhat daunting but the native New Yorkers will never tell. In fact Little sounds more like the celebration of breaking out on your own, finding out that you can in fact pack up your life and start again somewhere else. The evidence of a band eager to embrace the drastic change of scenery can be found in the very first track “Runaways,” where lead singer Kaila McIntyre-Bader sings “Climb a mountain/Sing it out/I’m gonna build my home here/Climb a mountain/Sing it out/I’m gonna lay my head here/My heart here.” Now that is what I call sincere determination in song form.

The other new studio tracks include “Soldiers of Spring,” which is the perfect song for a winter’s day, and the extremely catchy single “Time.” Big Tree are well known for their live performances so the last three songs on Little, “This New Year,” “Woods,” and “October” were recorded live at San Francisco’s much loved music venue Rickshaw Stop.

Check out the first single “Time” above, and help support the cross country move by buying Little on Big Tree’s bandcamp site.