Big French

Big French operates as a lo-fi experimental rock outfit based in New York City and led by Quentin Moore, whose unusually high voice defines the frontman role. Moore’s concise, knotty compositions draw on post-punk, prog, and no wave precedents yet resist placement within any single genre. Besides handling vocals, guitar, and all songwriting duties, Moore is joined by synthesizer player Zach Phillips of Blanche Blanche Blanche, drummer Jo Miller-Gamble, bassist Adam Steck, and guitarist Colin White. The band’s first release, the 2011 7-inch On Your Fam-il-y, ranked among the earliest offerings from Brooklyn’s Wharf Cat Records. Wharf Cat followed with the full-length Downtown Runnin in 2013, after which Phillips’s OSR Tapes issued the cassette EP Would Not Try/Atlanta. Recording for the group’s more ambitious and intricate sophomore album, Stone Fish, began at Phillips’s Manual FX Studio in Brooklyn during 2015, with Wharf Cat handling its eventual release in 2017.