Data updated on 2025-05-20 19:03:20 UTC
Big Fear—like Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big Dick—is a vaguely menacing and all-encompassing boogeyman; a reckoning with fear itself. Formed by Alice Edwards (lead vocals), Jack Wilkinson (guitar) and Ben Crone (synth), the London trio explores the point where terror curdles into apathy. Self-reflexively dystopian and operatic, Big Fears’ songs are synth-throbbing generational anthems served with an almost ironic pomp.
Edwards draws such a powerful reaction, in part, because they give a megaphone to those who have scarcely been represented before. Asexual and nonbinary, Edwards says they’ve experienced “a distinct separation from a media and music and culture” that has privileged romantic and gender essentialist narratives. A shrewd storyteller and wild performer with a sharp viewpoint, Edwards is forging a place of belonging for outsiders. Here, in Big Fear’s world, sex isn’t the be all and end all, but a kind of joke, one that Edwards sings about with a cloying wink and a dispassionate remove. It’s why only they could possibly come up with that crab line. It’s why only they could take on the force that is Big Fear.
Edwards draws such a powerful reaction, in part, because they give a megaphone to those who have scarcely been represented before. Asexual and nonbinary, Edwards says they’ve experienced “a distinct separation from a media and music and culture” that has privileged romantic and gender essentialist narratives. A shrewd storyteller and wild performer with a sharp viewpoint, Edwards is forging a place of belonging for outsiders. Here, in Big Fear’s world, sex isn’t the be all and end all, but a kind of joke, one that Edwards sings about with a cloying wink and a dispassionate remove. It’s why only they could possibly come up with that crab line. It’s why only they could take on the force that is Big Fear.
Total plays
69,271
Updated on 2025-05-20
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Monthly listeners
19,992
Followers
655
