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Big Green’s In Retrograde is here!

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The wait is over – Big Green’s fourth album, In Retrograde, is out now. Twenty-four new tracks from America’s most obscure indie band are now available on all major streaming services as well as right here at big-green.net.

“This packed album is one small step back into the analog warmth and wide range of sounds heard on late ‘60s and early ‘70s FM radio.”

– Leif Zurmuhlen, Metroland Now

Recorded in Big Green’s lowly basement studio in upstate New York, In Retrograde is an album that draws on the music of rock’s early days in the 1960s and ’70s; a colorful collection of torch songs, love ballads, and full-throated laments that mark a dramatic departure from the band’s usual thematic direction, rendered with characteristic simplicity and passion. It’s an album that weighs in at 24 tracks, one for each hour of the day. (You can listen to it like that, though your mileage may vary.)

We’ve got three great ways to get an earful of this, our newest (and longest) album, two years in the making:

  • Download the album (or just a track) on iTunes or at Amazon music
  • Stream In Retrograde on Apple Music, Spotify, or any other major streaming platform
  • Kick back and listen right here at big-green.net:
In Retrograde - Big Green's newest album

Spread The Word

If you like In Retrograde, please let us know, and be sure to share it with friends, family, pets, passing squirrels, and everyone you know on the internets. Big Green is back, baby!

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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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