In 2015 BIG released a long-anticipated new 74-minute double LP titled, Before Ever After, co-produced by Bill Laswell and Andy Hawkins. The new material featured looser structures to maximize Wyskida's exceptional improvisational skills. The Obelisk hailed the release as "a dangerous kind of offering, able to turn on a dime between precision mathematics, reggae, crunching heavy riffage, surf rock and jazz in a wordless sprawl that makes a joke of most bands' ideas of sonic diversity." King Crimson bassist Trey Gunn angrily proclaimed "Heavy music that isn't stupid and doesn't think I am stupid. This stuff demands deep listening. Which means most music doesn't." Three tracks from album ("Barrage," "High And Mighty," and "Shutdown") are featured in Alex Winters' HBO documentary about the rise and fall of Napster titled, Downloaded. BIG followed the release with a month long tour of Europe, including a special Roadburn appearance which prompted The Sleeping Shaman to say "The set is really one big trip, going in all sorts of directions. Jagged hooks, jazzy interplay and the most incomprehensive set of drums (and the guy playing them) you'll ever see. Carnivalesque at one moment and a reggae jam on the other, its one hell of a ride with the band that just released their first album in 23 years."
In 2015 BIG released a long-anticipated new 74-minute double LP titled, Before Ever After, co-produced by Bill Laswell and Andy Hawkins. The new material featured looser structures to maximize Wyskida's exceptional improvisational skills. The Obelisk hailed the release as "a dangerous kind of offering, able to turn on a dime between precision mathematics, reggae, crunching heavy riffage, surf rock and jazz in a wordless sprawl that makes a joke of most bands' ideas of sonic diversity." King Crimson bassist Trey Gunn angrily proclaimed "Heavy music that isn't stupid and doesn't think I am stupid. This stuff demands deep listening. Which means most music doesn't." Three tracks from album ("Barrage," "High And Mighty," and "Shutdown") are featured in Alex Winters' HBO documentary about the rise and fall of Napster titled, Downloaded. BIG followed the release with a month long tour of Europe, including a special Roadburn appearance which prompted The Sleeping Shaman to say "The set is really one big trip, going in all sorts of directions. Jagged hooks, jazzy interplay and the most incomprehensive set of drums (and the guy playing them) you'll ever see. Carnivalesque at one moment and a reggae jam on the other, its one hell of a ride with the band that just released their first album in 23 years."
