The Big Moon return with announcement of fourth album, Forever, and share lead single "Gravity"

The quartet's new record arrives four years after Here Is Everything and finds frontwoman Juliette Jackson processing a different set of concerns. Where the previous album was shaped by new motherhood and the pandemic, Forever examines what comes after life's major milestones, coloured by a more direct encounter with mortality when Jackson was diagnosed with a cholesteatoma – a benign cyst inside the eardrum – in 2024. It required surgery that resulted in permanent hearing loss in one ear.

"[It] was pretty much existential, because writing songs is my job and my identity," she explains. Initially struggling to write, she found her way back by shifting her perspective: "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."

Lead single "Gravity" sets the tone. Jackson says of the track: "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 every one, 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 album was recorded over three weeks at Norfolk's Bam Bam Studios, with Sam Cohen (Kevin Morby) co-producing alongside the band. Bassist Celia Archer describes the record's overarching mood: "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's November tour opens in Birmingham on 18 November, with stops in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Bristol, Brighton, Manchester and Leeds before the Brixton finale on 27 November. Pre-sale access is available via album pre-order, with general sale from 3 July. Prior to that, The Big Moon will play summer support slots with Alanis Morissette, Self Esteem and Public Service Broadcasting.

Forever artwork

Forever tracklist

“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"