![]() ![]() She’s a fantastic lyricist, endlessly quotable and often subtly devastating without self-pity or the jarring rawness that characterises comparable US songwriters. But there’s nothing kitsch about the Big Moon’s bright and inviting second record – its singles have, pleasingly, found a surprising home on Radio 1, and songwriter and frontwoman Juliette Jackson is a real laureate of how underwhelming contemporary womanhood can feel. ![]() At their spikiest, as on Don’t Think or Holy Roller, they can recall the great 2000s indie band the Long Blondes. Their piano galumphs along, their vocal harmonies are rowdy and imposing yet their quirks are tamed by keen, oddball structures, and a rare balance of enveloping dreaminess and emphatic insistence.
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