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Pre-add or pre-order Big Green’s In Retrograde

April’s here, and you know what that means. That’s right – rainy days, flowers blooming, trees budding, grass growing, and – most importantly – Big Green’s new album is available for pre-add or pre-order!

In Retrograde – our fourth studio album – is dropping May 1, but you can reserve your copy right now. Here’s how:

HEAR OUR TRACK “ONE DAY” ON AMAZON

PRE-ADD ON APPLE MUSIC

PRE-ORDER ON ITUNES

Non-corporate options

Not into these streaming platforms? You can also just contact us directly and ask for a copy. If you’ve been a listener of ours for a stretch (or don’t have any cash … or both), we will be glad to share some files. If you can afford to help us defray some of the costs of producing this stuff, that’s great, but not required.

Also, if you’re kind of a Luddite (like us) and prefer CDs, we’ll even burn them onto CDRs, depending on how many requests we get. In Retrograde is a digital release, but we’re not ruling out pressing a limited run of CDs if enough people request them.

In Retrograde - Big Green's newest album

Learn more

Find out more about In Retrograde (i.e. what the hell’s on it) by visiting the album page we threw together in a hurry:

IN RETROGRADE PAGE

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In Retrograde album drop: T-minus 56 & counting

This just in: the release date for Big Green’s new album, In Retrograde, is May 1, 2025. Man goddamn, it’s about freaking time! This is Big Green’s fourth album and its first in more than ten years. (Mama told us to take it slow, and that’s what we’re doing.)

LEARN MORE ABOUT IN RETROGRADE

Just a few facts to share about In Retrograde:

  1. It’s Big Green’s longest album yet – In Retrograde weighs in at 24 tracks, all original, all written for this album. In fact, it would be a double album if that were still a thing (which it ain’t).
  2. It’s digital only – That’s right, we’re not pressing a CD this time unless people really, really, REALLY want one.
  3. It’s being distributed by CDBaby – We decided to roll with CDBaby as they handled our last release, Cowboy Scat: Songs in the Key of Rick, back in 2013.
  4. No songs about presidents or dressage horses – Unlike our last two albums, this one doesn’t have overt political or T.V. show references, though there are some mentions of veganism here and there if you listen with a stethoscope.
  5. It has retro album art – Kind of old fashioned, an oblique nod to the overall style of the recordings (60s – 70s rock). And yes, there’s a robot. (See below.)
In Retrograde, by Big Green.

Q. But Big Green … where do I find said album?

We were hoping you would ask that question. The album will be available for streaming on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music. Pre-order date on streaming services is April 1. Links are available on this HearNow.com page:

PRE-ORDER / PRE-Add: IN RETROGRADE

Q. But damn it, Big Green – I don’t use the internets! Where do I get a CD, huh?

Gotcha. Tell you what we’re gonna do. Just contact us and we will burn you CDRs of the entire album (spoiler alert: it will be two discs) for a nominal fee, to be determined. Don’t got no money? No problem – we’ll send it to you gratis, as long as we can afford to do so. (Spoiler alert #2: if we get more than a dozen or two requests, we’ll look into pressing a limited run.)

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Hey, man … do a brother a favor. If you’ve got accounts on Apple Music, Spotify, or one of the others, give us a follow, leave us a review, add us to a playlist or two.

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Warning: This content generated by AI (An Idiot)

I don’t suppose anyone has said this to you yet, but happy new year! My guess is that you are as ecstatic as we are to unlock the wonders of 2025. So much to look forward to, it says here.

We’ve been busy with the process of acclimating ourselves to an actual winter. Brother Matt has been slogging through the snow up at the farm, feeding creatures furry and feathered while steeling himself against sub-zero temperatures like we haven’t seen in probably five years. Me? I’m flying in my taxi, taking tips and getting stoned. (Did I say that?)

Content questions abound

We don’t get a lot of inquiries here at Big Green, but if we did, I’m sure they would center on our promised new album. What kinds of songs will it feature, and how many? What will the cover look like? Will it be available in stores? Will it include discount coupons for romaine lettuce? That kind of stuff, I imagine.

The most challenging questions, however, are those that cut to the core of the creative process. For instance, why do we, in this day and age, bother to write, arrange, record, mix, and master an album when we can just drop the right prompts into an AI engine and have it spit out the finished product in minutes if not seconds?

Good question. Our answer might be something like … how do you know we DIDN’T do that? How, indeed.

A picture is worth a thousand prompts

Take the header image on this very post (please!). I can tell you right now, that photo was generated by AI. Given the input criteria we provided, only an idiot could come up with something that random and asinine. Hey … that’s the same process we follow when we produce an album. We generate ideas in our tiny minds, and after about two years, out pops an album, for better or worse.

Is that as fast as the other, more well-known A.I. (artificial intelligence)? God, no. But (and this is important) it takes a lot less energy to produce, and it doesn’t sound anything like what this looks like:

Craziness

Good thing? Bad thing? You decide.

Anticipated dimensions of said object

To return to the more pedestrian questions I imagine an interested party might pose to us, here’s what we got. Yes, the new album is nearing completion (currently in the mastering phase). We have a title. There will be 24 tracks, so it’s more like a double-album, if you will (not that the term means anything anymore). I think we have a running order, but not totally sure.

We don’t have a release date, but I’m sticking to my prediction of a Spring drop for this one. Don’t expect a splash – we may buy a couple of ads, but that’s about it. Word of mouth. (What other kinds of words are there?)

Sadly, there will be no discount coupons for lettuce, romaine or otherwise. Budget is tight, people – such are the times we live in.