Size of the Ocean (Remastered)

by Big Heavy Stuff

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Deluxe double vinyl remastered version of Size of the Ocean, pressed on "ocean blue" and "sunrise yellow" clear vinyl, in a gatefold jacket. With 3 bonus tracks!

Includes unlimited streaming of Size of the Ocean (Remastered) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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Cassette + Digital Album
Only 50 copies available! Limited edition blue cassette with yellow print of "Size of the Ocean" design, J card print.

Includes unlimited streaming of Size of the Ocean (Remastered) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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T-Shirt/Shirt
Screen printed shirt on black AS Colour staple tee, with white print on a Black, Dark Blue or Maroon tee, artwork designed by Matt W. Bayes.

New screen print run of this Size of the Ocean shirt, to go with the release of Live at triple j 2004 album.

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Full Digital Discography

Get all 3 Big Heavy Stuff releases available on Bandcamp and save 25%.

Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Live at triple j 2004, Size of the Ocean (Remastered), and Devil's Tongue / Big Heavy Dub. , and , .

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Vinyl & Tee Bundle
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Includes
1. Size of the Ocean Vinyl LP
2. Your choice of tee

Tees printed on AS Colour Staple with your choice of black tee with yellow print or white tee with black print.

Includes unlimited streaming of Size of the Ocean (Remastered) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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Everything Bundle - Vinyl, Cassette, Tee
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Includes:
1. Size of the Ocean Vinyl 2LP
2. Size of the Ocean Cassette
3. Tee (your choice of size and style)

Tees printed on AS Colour Staple, in your choice of black tee with yellow print or white tee with black print.

Includes unlimited streaming of Size of the Ocean (Remastered) via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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1.	Hibernate 03:43		buy track
2.	Devil's Tongue 04:07	info	buy track
3.	Laughing Boy 03:57		buy track
4.	Two Sisters 03:11		buy track
5.	Redhead 04:53		buy track
6.	Helen's Razor 04:26		buy track
7.	Wide Eyed & Open 03:52		buy track
8.	Hank 03:42		buy track
9.	Forever Sighs the Ocean 02:51		buy track
10.	Freaks in the Circus 04:38		buy track
11.	You Send Me 04:43		buy track
12.	Bye the Blue Sky 04:52		buy track
13.	Big Heavy Dub (Bonus Track Vinyl Album) 08:43		buy track
14.	Hello It's Me (Bonus Track Vinyl Album) 03:46	info	buy track
15.	Right Off the Planet (Bonus Track Vinyl Album) 04:15	info	buy track

about

Big Heavy Stuff - "Size of the Ocean" (Remastered), coming soon on vinyl, cassette and digital download. Vinyl version and digital/download includes 3 extra tracks.

In late 98’, Big Heavy Stuff hit the studio to record their 3rd album, Size of the Ocean. With legendary producer Wayne Connolly at the helm, the band produced their most commercially successful album to date. “Size” saw the band refine their sound with “subtlety and restraint’ but still paired with their trademark guitar riffs, Greg Atkinson (Vocals, Guitar) took his melodies and lyrics to another level, at times the songs are paired back to enable them to come to the fore.

The album was recorded and mixed to tape on one of the last Neve analogue consoles (as mythologised in the Sound City documentary) to operate in Australia’s golden era of sound engineering. Whilst these tapes are now lost to time, fortunately prior to the album release in 2001 (via Jebediah’s label Redline Records), a flat transfer of the analogue tapes was made to digital audio tape, preserving them for the future.

Fast forward to 2023 and Big Heavy Stuff has made this available to produce a remastered version of Size of the Ocean. Chris Hanszek (Hanszek Audio) has taken the original transfer and remastered the album to suit the analogue formats of vinyl and cassette (for the first time) as well as a digital download. As a reflection of the quality of the original recording and mix, the album only required minimal intervention to update it for the 2023 release.

To maximise the fidelity of the new vinyl release, the album is now split over a limited-edition double vinyl (one disc in translucent blue and the other in translucent yellow), which allowed space to include some additional tracks on side D. 3 tracks, originally seen on the “Mutiny” EP (2003), now close out the last side of the double album. A very limited-edition cassette version of the album will also be released, featuring the original album tracks only.

Mark Gowing (formist), who originally designed the artwork for the CD release has updated the original art for display on a gatefold cover.

The vinyl album release will be pressed in Australia by Suitcase Records. Both physical formats include a download card.

Size of the Ocean received critical acclaim on release and was nominated for best alternative album in the 2001 Aria awards, and the track Hibernate made the JJJ hottest 100 in the same year.

Love as Fiction Records is proud to reissue Size of the Ocean in collaboration with Big Heavy Stuff for fans old and new to enjoy.

credits

released December 11, 2023

All Songs - Big Heavy Stuff - Greg Atkinson, Carolyn Polley, Nick Kennedy, Eliot Fish, except Track 14 "Hello It's Me" written by Todd Rundgren.

"Size of the Ocean" Tracks 1-12 originally released on the album "Size of the Ocean" - 2001. Produced and Mastered by Wayne Connolly. Additional recording by Julian Knowles.

"Big Heavy Dub" remix by Lyndon Pike from original recording by Wayne Connolly. Tracks 13-15 originally released on the Mutiny Single - 2003. Mastered at 301 by Dave Macquarie. "Hello It's Me" (Todd Rundgren) recorded and mixed by Wayne Connolly, arranged by Big Heavy Stuff. "Right Off the Planet" recorded by Dave Trump-manis, mixed by Matt Lovell, Cello by Sophie Glasson.

All tracks remastered 2023 by Chris Hanszek at Hanszek Audio. "Tracks 1-12" sourced from a flat transfer of the original analogue tape recording of Size of the Ocean (1999).

Released in conjunction with Big Heavy Stuff by Love As Fiction Records 2023 under exclusive license, from the forthcoming remastered version of "Size of the Ocean" 2023.

"Size of the Ocean" Bandcamp header graphic, cassette graphic design and t-shirt design by Matt Bayes.

Original album design and vinyl design by Mark Gowing.

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Big Heavy Stuff Sydney, Australia

Big Heavy Stuff formed in Sydney in 1990 and released 4 albums and several EPs. The band have been on hiatus since 2006. The last band lineup consisted of Greg Atkinson (Vocals, Guitars),
Carolyn Polley (Guitars, Vocals)
Eliot Fish (Bass, Vocals), Nick Kennedy (Drums). Love As Fiction Records is proud to release remastered versions of their work. ... more

loveasfictionrecords.com.au

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