Office Culture finds beauty in the details

thefader.com:

Shortly after finishing work on Big Time Things, his band Office Culture’s third studio album, Winston Cook-Wilson realized he’d pushed his process to its limit.

Written alone and rehearsed from a safe distance in a drafty Red Hook warehouse in the depths of a lockdown midwinter, Big Time Things was a pitch-black comedy, weary and uneasy, painfully personal in places.

It was also painstakingly complex. Cook-Wilson felt, in its immediate aftermath, as though he’d written a full-length musical and had his bandmates come in to score it with him, bar by bar.

Its title track was so sinuous, thick with unexpected chord changes, that it seemed off-kilter, like a fragmented conversation from a dream.