The Big Moon - NME's new band of the week

The Big Moon are a female indie-rock quartet from London who formed just over a year ago. They have released 2 singles on soundcloud called Sucker and Eureka Moment. The quartet are heavily influenced by the Palma Violets, as they are part of the reason to what inspired and motivated the lead singer - Juliette Jackson to want to be in a band.

Their first track is called Sucker and the introduction is a steady melancholic beat on the guitar followed by further percussion – shortly accompanied by rhythmic vocals and a catchy first verse. The song works well for the quartet as the repetitiveness isn't too much and that is what makes the song so contagious; especially the chorus of:

“And it got colder every day, but I wouldn't change my mind. It got darker every night, but I wouldn't change my mind.”

However, even though this song is about the struggles she’s having with her companion and the bad times that have occurred within the relationship, she only explains that she’s a sucker for her partner towards the end of the song.

Their second single is called Eureka Moment, this track is a lot more upbeat than ‘Sucker ’with a less relaxed, longer and a more energetic instrumental. As the word Eureka means the sudden, unexpected realization of the solution to a problem. However, a revelation is a surprising and previously unknown fact that has been disclosed to others or it could be categorized as the divine or supernatural disclosure to humans of something relating to human existence according to Wikipedia.

Therefore I think what Jackson was trying to say is that there is potentially a very intelligent individual who is perhaps a bit of an introvert, but if they unveiled out of their shell - could potentially change the world?  As they have sussed this unknown fact that we are unaware of throughout the song, but are too shy to reveal it to anybody but everyone around them knows that they’re hiding something. However, this is just the way that I perceive this song.

“So you could have been the voice of your generation, but then you never had the nerve of revelation.”

I have chosen to have written about The Big Moon as they were on NME’s ‘new band of the week’ category and they've definitely lived up to their expectations! I will be tracking them on soundcloud and will be keeping myself updated on any new releases of theirs. The tracks have both been very well structured and well put together and have gotten very well-thought out lyrics too. Therefore I think that the female quartet could potentially be the next new trend?

9/10

The link to their soundcloud is as followed:  soundcloud.com/commoonicate