Gecko Casts A Spell With New Album ‘The Big Picture’

South London alt-pop voyager Gecko has shared his new album ‘The Big Picture’ in full.

Out now, it follows a string of singles, each of which seemed to blend whimsical wit with self-conscious revelation. Taken as a whole, ‘The Big Picture’ rejoices in blurring the lines between fact and fiction, with Gecko sometimes operating from an autobiographical vantage point, while at others indulging in storytelling.

The results have a unique feel. Working alongside Mercury-nominated engineer Shuta Shinoda, this is his broadest work yet, boasting warming string arrangements and the legendary Phil Veacock (Jools Holland) on sax and clarinet.

Discussing the studio process, Gecko comments…

If something sounded cool it stayed so I felt I could really lean into the scrapbook style, with samples including but not limited to my baby niece’s coos, my Grandad’s voice, my cats purr, gaffa tape, cardboard tubes and a wooden frog.

Playful but also emotionally piercing, ‘The Big Picture’ is the South London artist’s life down on tape. He adds:

These songs are my attempt to find some solace and comfort in the enormity and unlikeliness that has led us to the life that we now hold. And however messy this world is, that life we carry is unbelievably special and that fact is unbelievably easy to forget

Tune in now.

Gecko kicks off a UK run with a sold out show in London’s Green Note on March 12th.

Photo Credit: Hugo Glendinning