Elfman, Danny - Bigger. Messier.

Following his triumphant performances at the 2022 Coachella Music and Arts

Festival, Danny Elfman delivers Bigger. Messier, an ambitious double -album

collection of remixed and reimagined tracks from his highly acclaimed Big

Mess album. This sprawling, 23 track collection (available on 2 LP or 2 CD)

features tracks reworked by some of the most groundbreaking and

subversive artists around today.

Bigger. Messier views the Grammy and Emmy Award-winning composers

songs through the lens of luminaries from diverse sides of the music

business, including Trent Reznor, Iggy Pop, Squarepusher, and

Ghostemane.

Elfman once again has achieved a kind of artistic liberation on the record

that had been eluding him for decades, and connecting him to brand new

audience. Born and raised in southern California, Elfman began his career as

part of a surrealist, avant-garde musical theater troupe known as The Mystic

Knights of Oingo Boingo. The group would eventually morph into the critically

acclaimed rock band Oingo Boingo, whose high-energy performances and

genre-bending sound garnered them a fanatically devoted cult following in

the 1980s and '90s. Among the group's early fans was fledgling director Tim

Burton and Paul Reubens (aka Pee-wee Herman), who enlisted Elfman to

score their first feature film, Pee-wee's Big Adventure. The collaboration

would prove to be the start of a long and fruitful partnership for Elfman and

Burton, with Elfman going on to score a string of iconic Burton features like

Batman, Beetlejuice, Big Fish, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare

Before Christmas. To date, Elfman has scored more than 100 films.