The Big Moon has released their bold, left-of-field new single, Trouble from their forthcoming album, Here Is Everything.
The London four-piece has seen a wave of success following their mercury prize short-listed debut album, Love in the 4th Dimension.
The band’s latest pop offering, Trouble was conceived during the last lockdown. Taking freedom back to the streets, and with it, a lot of new energy, The Big Moon returns with a fresh, daring, left-of-center hit, which hails from the band’s third record, Here Is Everything, slated for release next month via Fiction Records/Virgin Music Australia.
Starting with a sparse drumbeat and bass, Trouble soon erupts into a technicolour chorus of driving guitars that are The Big Moon’s signature sound. Like everything in the last couple of years, Here Is Everything was created during the pandemic. Defining a time when worlds were turned upside down, and inside out.
Living took on a different meaning, forcing creatives to find an outlet, and COVID offered up nuggets of time to sit around in your pajamas for the hours, watching as one day melted into the next, which made everything seem strangely similar. Who knew it would serve as an unlikely hero for allowing the time and the space to welcome a new life.
Vocalist, Juliette Jackson spent the beginning of the pandemic teaching fans how to play the guitar on Zoom to help pay the rent, but she ended it as a mother to a super little human being. Here Is Everything documents the arrival of her baby in real-time, and all the fear and excitement of becoming a first-time mother with it. The band used their time wisely, and doubled down in the studio, taking Jules’ samples, and demos to create together an innate, giddy togetherness of genuinely fantastic tunes.
Speaking on the new single, Juliette says: “Trouble is about remembering walking over the railway bridge to the hospital to give birth. This is a bridge I cross every day, but somehow in my memory on that day it’s like a bridge over a canyon in a technicolour Wizard of Oz jungle landscape. Like giant leaves and blurry edges and oversaturated colours. But it’s just a pissy graffiti-covered South London pedestrian bridge. And it’s about learning that memories aren’t always right, and you don’t have to hang on to them and be traumatised by them forever.”
“I’ve since realised that this song has been more than a song to me, it’s been healing. Birth is traumatic, however, you do it, and for me, the early months of motherhood were even more traumatising. No one tells you how difficult breastfeeding is! It’s almost like, by making that experience sound like joy and then playing it again and again with my best friends, I’ve found a way of reframing my memory of that period. You can forget, you can remember it differently, you can heal, you can live.”
Here Is Everything was self and co-produced by CECIL (Self Esteem, Jehnny Beth, PJ Harvey) and the Grammy Award-winning producer Ben Allen (Gnarls Barkley, Deer Hunter, and the producer of ‘Walking Like We Do’).
Stream Trouble here.
Trouble follows the band’s returning single, Wide Eyes. Watch the video here.
Here Is Everything is out Friday 14th October via Fiction Records / Virgin Music Australia.
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