New Music: Big Winner – Dinosaur

To coincide with the release of his new album, Big Winner (FKA CHUCK) has dropped this charming video for the title track.

Rather like the song itself, the clip is a collage of memories and life events, some serious, some full of childish glee. At times full of wonder and that youthful unawareness of real pain, then fully aware of mortality, Dinosaur is marking time and making it too. Existing where the beauty of new life, the emerging of childhood, and the demerging of that childhood from its dependence on us.

Rather like his previous single Blissin’ Out, it has a seemingly ad-hoc assemblage of beauty and sadness, it’s lo-fi indie style presenting a veneer of permanence in what is a never-ending story, but our role in it will diminish and end, only for others to take our place.

“The title of this record comes from my son’s endearing obsession with dinosaurs, as well as my own feeling of slowly going extinct,” says Big Winner – Stockholm-based American musician Charles Griffin Gibson – about the song and LP.

“Dinosaur is ultimately a record about ping-ponging back and forth between many contradictory feelings: the joy I feel when I’m playing with my kids, the way their eyeballs on me make me hate my bad habits, the hazy nostalgia of remembering my youth back in America, and the creeping realization that my (our?) time is running out.”

Dinosaur is out now and streaming on Spotify and Bandcamp. For artist updates and other listening options for the LP, make your way over to Instagram.