BIG BIG TRAIN
The Underfall Yard ENGLISH ELECTRIC
BBT’s pivotal 2009 masterpiece, remixed and remastered.
While promoting their acclaimed 2009 album The Underfall Yard, Big Big Train took a punt and gave away the monolithic, 23-minute title track free via their website. This counter-intuitive gambit paid off. Years later, with their fortunes flourishing, BBT polled their Facebook fans (affectionately dubbed ‘Passengers’), and learned that this generous/shrewd gesture had led to many thousands of sales of the parent album. In turn, that LP was the gateway to the band’s world for a large proportion of the receptive audience that followed them ever since. To this day that fan favourite still shifts units and remains their best-selling release to date.