An emotive, hooky, candid third album by the London indie-rockers fronted by Juliette Jackson, with a running theme around her experience of pregnancy and its life-changing consequences. This could have turned into a saccharine and indulgently north London yummy-mummy formula, but thankfully the songs bring powerful, engaging pop. “Life is strange, nothing feels the same,” she sings on the stomping, smouldering opener, 2 Lines. Wide Eyes is about about love, friendship and support, emphasised by tenderly choreographed video involving the band’s quartet, ““a snapshot of insane, blissed-out, hormonal joy” cleverly co-written with singer-songwriter Jessica Winter. “You’ve been waiting for the future, like a heavyweight champion / But when you think you’d beat the underdog, she learns to sucker-punch” on Sucker Punch. High & Low seeks to capture the profound changes and experience of morning sickness and how many millions of women have experienced it before. Trouble, previously highlighted as a Song of the Day, is about walking over a railway bridge to the hospital to give birth and how the memory deals with pain. Daydreaming is a uplifting pop, seeking to find something positive in the big change. “Wherever I go, you’re the wind blowing through my mind / Whatever I cared about, don’t mean a thing to me now”. Not often a subject for many indie-rock-pop albums, here is everything indeed, where a new phase in life, ushered in by new life, utterly takes over, exhausting, overwhelming, but uplifting. Out on Fiction Records / Universal.
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