Here is everything
ELEANOR NOYCE catches up with The Big Moon’s Soph Nathan and Celia Archer to chat about parenthood, cultivating queer friendships and their latest album
Photo El Hardwick
The Big Moon’s frontwoman, Juliette Jackson, gave birth to her first child while writing and recording the band’s latest album, This Is Everything. Largely narrating her journey towards motherhood, it’s packed with a warming palette of alternative love songs. From the simultaneous experiences of “crashing” and “landing” penned in Wide Eyes to the “two little lines upon a stick” depicted in 2 Lines, it’s an emotional, multi-dimensional whirlwind.
But it wasn’t a singular experience: the group have bonded over what they describe as “different” but “disintegrating” feelings in the run-up to the album release. The album was written in two halves, with a year’s break between the two. “We were having different experiences at different points in making the record,” guitarist Soph Nathan tells me.