The Big Moon have released a new single, and OBVIOUSLY it's great (they've a new tour, too)

The Big Moon have shared their new single / video combo, 'Take A Piece'.

It's the latest track from the group's second album, ‘Walking Like We Do’. The follow-up to ‘Love In The 4th Dimension’ will arrive on 10th January, just before their shows with Bombay Bicycle Club.

Vocalist Juliette Jackson says: “I initially wrote this song for someone else, speculatively, but for a pop star. I’d already written an album’s worth of songs but a lot of them felt similar to our first album and I wanted to try something different.

“I’d just watched a documentary about this pop star and seen how insane their life was and their intense relationship with their fans, and was blown away by how much of themselves they’d had to give up to have the life they had. So that’s where the lyrics came from really. It was a bit of a turning point in the writing process… like sometimes you have to pretend to be someone else to change things up and say things in ways you didn’t know you could. This mega pop star’s life was literally nothing like mine but I could really identify with the vulnerability of being a performer and standing on stage every night and feeling the eyes of an audience, which can feel either grounding and unifying or - occasionally - scary and isolating, and something any performer can identify with, whether they’re playing arenas or the windmill.

“It also has a lot to do with how it felt to write this second album. Trying to get out of your head, figuring out which voices to listen to and which to ignore, and ultimately wanting to pour yourself into the thing you’re creating and make something honest and meaningful that might connect with someone else and mean something to them as well.

“At first, we weren’t really sure if this could be a big moon song, we were on unfamiliar ground… but the idea just stuck around. And we kept going back to it, and the more we played with it the more we fell in love with it, and now it couldn’t be more ours. And you know what, it’s exciting that as musicians we can do whatever the hell we want! And when we finally recorded it we were like gahhh what have we made? Is this a big moon song? Can we be this self-indulgent? BUT WHY THE HELL NOT?

“Look we made a pop song!”

The clip arrives alongside news of their own headline run, too - catch them live at the following:

FEBRUARY
27 Bristol The Fleece
28 Liverpool O2 Academy 2
29 Edinburgh Summerhall Arts Centre

MARCH
2 Nottingham Contemporary
3 Oxford O2 Academy 2
9 Paris Le Point Ephémère
10 Cologne MTC
11 Berlin Privatclub
13 Amsterdam Paradiso
14 Antwerp Trix Bar