Big Swing Face is the eighth album by American singer and pianist Bruce Hornsby.

The album was Hornsby's most experimental effort to date; the only album on which Hornsby barely plays any piano, it relied heavily on post-electronica beats, drum loops, Pro Tools editing, and dense synthesizer arrangements.

[2] The album also boasts a "stream-of-consciousness wordplay" of lyrics that are in many ways more eccentric and humorous than previous work.

[3] The jazz fusion jam on "Cartoons & Candy" and the gesture towards Hornsby's jam band influence with Steve Kimock's extended guitar solo on "The Chill" highlighted some of the album's only familiar territory,[3] and Hornsby cites the opening track, "Sticks and Stones," as his partial homage to Radiohead's "Everything in its Right Place.

"[4] Big Swing Face received mixed reviews, ranging from "a new and improved Bruce Hornsby"[5] to feeling as if "someone else is singing", to the album being called one of the "strangest records of 2002".