(Fiction)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 confines of the guitar band configuration. The first track released from Walking Like We Do – It’s Easy Then – dropped a big clue about the band’s chosen trajectory, with a soaring chorus and a video animation of the song’s central instrument: the piano. Take a Piece, meanwhile, channels 90s pop anthemics without shame.