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“I ALWAYS WANTED TO PLAY WITH OTHER PEOPLE AND BE IN BANDS”

Since bursting onto London’s live music scene in 2014, The Big Moon have passed through several phases. First came Love In The 4th Dimension - the band’s irreverently Libertines-esque indie-rock debut that earned them a Mercury Prize nomination. Then, in 2020, the four-piece showed a softer side with the more spacious pop sensibilities of their “coming of age” record, Walking Like We Do. Now, they return with Here Is Everything - a collection of 11 songs that were conceived amid the pandemic years, and during the pregnancy of frontwoman Juliette Jackson.

With its themes of birth, motherhood, excitement and fear, the life changing circumstances that inspired the album make it a decidedly more grown-up offering than anything The Big Moon has yet released. Still, it features all the astute lyricism and millennial wit that listeners have come to expect from Jackson’s writing, while doubling down on

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