The Big Moon announce their third album with new track ‘Wide Eyes’
It’s safe to say The Big Moon surprised us all this week with both the release of a brand new single and the announcement of their third album.
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Ah, The Big Moon. It wouldn’t be too grandiose to say the band have been one of the greatest sounds of “indie” summer for the last 5 years or so. Previous albums Love In The 4th Dimension and Walking Like We Do are equally full of gems, and I have no doubt we won’t be let down by the third.
It’s been a long two and a half years since their last album release and, with this new announcement, we’ve finally got something to sink our teeth into at last. Although we almost got an album last year, the band decided to pull the plug on releasing any music until after songstress Juliette had given birth, which turned out to work in their favour as this could very well shape up to be their best one yet.
Because this was the first album since Juliette’s pregnancy, the other members stepped in with the demos more so than previously, bouncing lockdown ideas off each other and seeing what stuck. Even with having to record many parts of the album at home due to lockdowns, the band had the privileges of using the home studio Fern had set up in her spare room, safe from the worries of limited studio time.
The first single taken from the third album is a little jewel of feel-good, joyous indie. Full of delightful summery riffs, it’s going to be one of those that can snap you out of the deepest of blue feelings. It’s the sound of childhood innocence and the weight of one’s stresses being released from them.
As usual, Juliette’s lyrical performance is absolutely sublime. That’s not surprising whatsoever, but the fact she wrote it just after becoming a mother for the first time perhaps is.
The greatest part of Wide Eyes is the fact it’s clearly four friends sharing all their creative power and having a really good time together on top of it all. And it’s bloody good to see them back and creating new material. This album will be one to count the days until, for what the band calls “The most Big Moon sounding album”.
This Is Everything is out October 14th via Fiction Records. Preorder here.
