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The Big Moon - Here Is Everything (Transparent LP VINYL ALBUM) "I don't think enough mothers have the time to tell their stories, especially during the wild ride of the first months of parenthood... so I hope that by adding mine to the pile, exhausted and lovesick mums might feel a little bit more seen." This album is a document of a period of enormous change in my life. We started it in the middle of lockdown, recorded half of it while i was 6 months pregnant, and we finished it with me with a 9 month old baby. So the songs were written over the time of lockdown, to coming off contraception, during pregnancy, and then post birth and 9 months into new motherhood. There are songs that hit massive highs, especially the songs of freedom post lockdown, a trip to Ladye Bay in Bristol was a particularly beautiful moment that summer and I’m so happy I managed to capture it. And there are love songs - i was shocked by the new depths of love you can find for your baby. And the love you can feel for a partner who selflessly helps you through the darkest and strangest times of your life. Someone who will literally hold a pot for you to piss in after a caesarean section. There were times when it was really hard to write, and you can really hear that in some songs. Especially something like High and Low, a song written post birth when I was at my most sleep deprived and feeling my least creative, experiencing the gnarly rollercoaster of highs and lows that happens to you after birth, unable to find the right words but able to instinctively find a chorus big enough to project how I was feeling. I wrote Satellites when i was experiencing morning sickness and could barely get off the floor... I thought, for the first time in my life, of all the mothers before me and all they had gone through to get us here. I still can’t believe I had never considered them before. It's also our most collaborative album, we really found our feet as a group and I think we’ve never felt stronger as friends. I think that as I got swept up in the tide of parenthood and caring for my baby, Celia, Fern and Soph stepped forward and turned these embryonic songs into something ambitious and widescreen and beautiful. Its not just a document of my parenthood, its one of our friendships too. We selfproduced most of it, with Adam Cecil Bartlett and Ben Allen as co producers. Tracklisting 1. 2 Lines 2. Wide Eyes 3. Daydreaming 4. This Love 5. Sucker Punch 6. My Very Best 7. Ladye Bay 8. Trouble 9. High & Low 10. Magic 11. Satellites
