The Big Moon have announced their fourth album ‘Forever’, released new single ‘Gravity’ and shared details of a UK headline tour for this year. Find all the details below.
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The London band will drop the 10-track record on October 30 via Fiction, following on from 2022’s ‘Here Is Everything’. You can pre-order/pre-save it here.
Per a press release, the forthcoming LP explores what’s left when you’ve already checked off many major milestones and is tempered by a first-hand understanding of life’s fragility.
Discussing propulsive, synth-y lead single ‘Gravity’, frontwoman Juliette Jackson explained: “At the time I wrote this song, every time I collected my son from nursery he would run and slam into me and give me the biggest hug.
“I knew it wouldn’t last forever, and I savoured everyone, and this song ended up commemorating that feeling. It’s about a love that you’re never really separated from, just elasticated, ready to snap back together.”
The Big Moon’s next era comes after Jackson was diagnosed with a cholesteatoma – a benign but destructive cyst inside the eardrum, which has to be removed with surgery.
“I permanently lost most of the hearing on one side, which was pretty much existential, because writing songs is my job and my identity,” she said. “I couldn’t hear properly; everything sounded out of tune and I was just struggling to find a point at all, just writing these miserable songs I couldn’t really hear.”
In response, Jackson completely shifted her outlook, manifesting “a happy ending that didn’t exist yet”.
“I just decided to write songs for this imaginary time, one or two years in the future, when I would be all healed and happy again,” she continued. “I didn’t know if I would ever get to that point, but by projecting and almost tricking myself into it, it actually became a really nice way of writing.”
‘Forever’ is said to contain “some of the brightest songs of The Big Moon’s career to date”, boasting “hook-heavy alt-pop gems” due to Jackson falling out of love with writing verses.
“Over the years, I’ve got more impatient with music,” she went on. “I just like getting straight to the point.”
The album was recorded over three weeks at Norfolk’s Bam Bam Studios, with Kevin Morby collaborator Sam Cohen co-producing alongside the band.
Speaking about the uplifting nature of the project, The Big Moon bassist Celia Archer added: “They’re not trivial songs lyrically or thematically or musically, but Jules has shown us you can face all this stuff and choose to be hopeful and find power from it. Hopefully other people can apply that to their own lives.”
The tracklist for The Big Moon’s ‘Forever’ is:
‘Gravity’
‘Three Things’
‘Fun’
‘F.O.R.E.V.E.R’
‘Sounds’
‘You Remind Me That I’m Dying (And That It’s Good To Be Alive)’
‘Speed Bump’
‘Can I Get A Reading Please’
‘I See You, Honey’
‘Chill’
The Big Moon are set to showcase ‘Forever’ on a UK headline tour this November. Dates include Birmingham, Edinburgh, Bristol, Brighton and Manchester, before the trek concludes with a show at London’s O2 Academy Brixton.
Tickets go on general sale at 10am BST this Friday (July 3) – you’ll be able to buy yours here. Alternatively, fans can access a pre-sale at the same time on Thursday (July 2) – sign up here.
The Big Moon’s UK headline tour dates for 2026 are:
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18 – O2 Institute 2, Birmingham
19 – La Belle Angele, Edinburgh
20 – St Luke’s, Glasgow
22 – Trinity Centre, Bristol
23 – Concorde 2, Brighton
25 – O2 Ritz, Manchester
26 – Project House, Leeds
27 – O2 Academy Brixton, London
The band are currently supporting Alanis Morrisette on her UK and Ireland tour, including the singer-songwriter’s huge show at London’s Crystal Palace Park this Saturday (July 4). They’ll also open for Self Esteem and Public Service Broadcasting this summer.
In a four-star review of ‘Here Is Everything’, NME described The Big Moon’s latest album as “emotive and glossy; one that gives space to breathe in this busy world”.
Speaking to NME around the record’s release, the group discussed its big theme of reflection, with Jackson opening up about how “motherhood is so, so many contradictions”.
“There’s a railway bridge that I cross every day, and I crossed it the morning that I gave birth to go to my local hospital,” she told us. “I realised that, in my memory of that day, it was like a bridge over a canyon and 100 miles high. Being able to cross it again [now] and see it’s not like that meant that I was able to look at my memories of that time and put them back in proportion a little bit.”
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