“inventive indie-pop that points to a bright future for the band”
“On Walking Like We Do, the U.K. rock quartet’s risks have paid off”
“Taken on its own terms, the new Big Moon album is an unmitigated success”
“There’s a certain symmetry between The Big Moon and Girl Ray. Both bands issued their indie-pop, girl gang debuts in 2017. Within months of each other they’re releasing their follow-ups, having scrapped initial demos that sounded too similar in order to stretch themselves as musicians. In the process they’ve cleaned up their sound and become more unashamedly pop. Yet where Girl Ray have created a”
“The UK quartet pairs glowing synth pads and layered harmonies with a distinctly millennial approach to the possibility of total annihilation.”
“There was certainly no shortage of competent and unimaginative indie rock in the late 2010s. But the debut album by the Big Moon – 2017’s Love in the 4th Dimension – swerved a landfill indie fate thanks to the band’s innate tunefulness and the assured songwriting of frontwoman Juliette Jackson. They snagged a Mercury nomination instead. This second outing finds the Big Moon straining at the confi”
