{"product_id":"the-big-moon-forever","title":"The Big Moon - Forever","description":"\u003cp data-start=\"35\" data-end=\"132\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"35\" data-end=\"51\"\u003eThe Big Moon\u003c\/strong\u003e return with their fourth album, \u003cem data-start=\"84\" data-end=\"93\"\u003eForever\u003c\/em\u003e, out 30th October via Fiction Records.\u003cspan aria-hidden=\"true\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"134\" data-end=\"328\"\u003eWhat happens after happily ever after? And how do you make forever count? These are the preoccupations at the heart of The Big Moon's buoyant yet beautifully bittersweet fourth album, \u003cem data-start=\"318\" data-end=\"327\"\u003eForever\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"330\" data-end=\"875\"\u003eFour years on from last LP \u003cem data-start=\"357\" data-end=\"377\"\u003eHere Is Everything\u003c\/em\u003e – and a further eight since frontwoman \u003cstrong data-start=\"417\" data-end=\"437\"\u003eJuliette Jackson\u003c\/strong\u003e first laid the foundations for the band – the London-formed four-piece find themselves in a very different, if similarly challenging, headspace. Where that record was conceived in the context of COVID and found Jackson processing the life-altering experience of new motherhood, \u003cem data-start=\"716\" data-end=\"725\"\u003eForever\u003c\/em\u003e examines what's left when you've already checked off many of the major milestones, and is tempered by a first-hand understanding of life's fragility.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"877\" data-end=\"1250\"\u003eThe truth is, the past couple of years have been a big readjustment for Jackson. In 2024, she was diagnosed with a cholesteatoma – a benign but destructive cyst inside the eardrum which has to be removed with surgery. Jackson explains, \"I permanently lost most of the hearing on one side, which was pretty much existential, because writing songs is my job and my identity.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1252\" data-end=\"1616\"\u003eStoic by nature, Jackson forged forward with songwriting regardless but found herself faltering. \"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.\" The answer was to shift her outlook completely, manifesting \"a happy ending that didn't exist yet.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1618\" data-end=\"1902\"\u003e\"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. 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1904\" data-end=\"2404\"\u003eIt proved an extremely fruitful approach, producing some of the brightest songs of The Big Moon's career to date. Recorded over three weeks at Norfolk's Bam Bam Studios, with \u003cstrong data-start=\"2079\" data-end=\"2094\"\u003eKevin Morby\u003c\/strong\u003e collaborator \u003cstrong data-start=\"2108\" data-end=\"2121\"\u003eSam Cohen\u003c\/strong\u003e co-producing alongside the band, \u003cem data-start=\"2155\" data-end=\"2164\"\u003eForever\u003c\/em\u003e is brimming with hook-heavy alt-pop gems, not least because Jackson had fallen out of love with writing verses. \"Over the years I've got more impatient with music,\" Jackson explains with a grin. \"I just like getting straight to the point.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2406\" data-end=\"2708\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"\u003eAs bandmate \u003cstrong data-start=\"2418\" data-end=\"2434\"\u003eCelia Archer\u003c\/strong\u003e explains, they hope the album proves uplifting. \"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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fiction Records","offers":[{"title":"Limited Edition 140g Sparkle\/Starlight Colour Vinyl LP","offer_id":58427469463897,"sku":"SDZ-48013","price":28.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"Black Vinyl LP","offer_id":58427469496665,"sku":"SDZ-48014","price":27.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":58427469529433,"sku":"SDZ-48015","price":15.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/3455\/0945\/files\/INT_20260626_1457_140225_820_v_0823375207665_002.png?v=1782742182","url":"https:\/\/spindizzyrecords.com\/products\/the-big-moon-forever","provider":"Spindizzy Dublin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}