Big Changes builds on the sound that Sturgeon has cultivated for Status/Non-Status throughout their debut as Status/Non-Status in Warrior Down (2019) and its sophomore follow up in Surely Travel (2022). With an incredible cast of collaborators, the album shapes up to be a defining experience of what Status/Non-Status is for me. This maturity in the band’s sound coheres well with the thematic angle of the album, sitting tightly between its atmospheric moments of disillusion and its more awe-inspiring peaks.