THE BIG MOON – ‘FOREVER’ ALBUM RELEASE AND TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT

‘Forever’ is an album birthed from a readjustment and seeped in life’s fragility.

Coming years since the release of their last EP ‘Here Is Everything’, The Big Moon are on the precipice of the release of new album ‘Forever’, and until 2024, frontwoman Juliette Jackson had been ticking off life’s biggest milestones.

However, 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 had 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”.

In her rather British fashion, Jackson didn’t allow this to hold her back. She struggled on with songwriting, but progress faltered. 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.”

She shifted her outlook in pursuit of a happy ending that didn’t yet exist. “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.”

This fruitful approach provided some of The Big Moon’s brightest songs to date. Recorded over three weeks at Norfolk’s Bam Bam Studios, with Kevin Morby-collaborator Sam Cohen co-producing alongside the band, Forever 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.”

As bandmate Celia Archer 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.

The band are also set to embark on their November 2026 UK headline tour, taking in 8 dates across the country and culminating with their biggest headline show to date at London’s O2 Academy Brixton on Friday 27th November.

Ahead of the tour, the band have also been on the road this summer with a number of appearances at outdoor shows in support of Alanis Morissette, Self Esteem and Public Service Broadcasting.

Forever tracklisting

The Big Moon live 2026

Tue 27th October – Rough Trade East, London (Instore)
Wed 28th October – Pie & Vinyl, Southsea (Instore)
Thu 29th October – Sound Knowledge, St. Peter’s Church, Marlborough (Instore)
Fri 30th October – Resident, Brighton (Instore)
Sun 1st November – Vinilo, Southampton (Instore)
Mon 2nd November – Rough Trade, Nottingham (Instore)
Tue 3rd November – Rough Trade, Liverpool (Instore)
Wed 4th November – Wax and Beans, Bury (Instore)
Thu 5th November – Rough Trade, Bristol (Instore)

Written by Brad Halcrow for The Songbird HQ