Vocalist Juliette Jackson might have started lockdown teaching fans how to play guitar on Zoom to help pay the rent (including, to her eternal bemusement, one Courtney Love), she ended it as mother to a super little human being.
So, whilst Covid pulled the duvet tightly up over our heads and sat on it whilst we muffle-screamed that we could not breathe, it was also the unlikely backdrop to welcoming new life.
Lives became seismically different, whilst every day a carbon copy of the last. Worlds were turned upside down and inside out. Like so many records landing in store and on streaming services right now, Here Is Everything was conceived during the weight and worry of lockdown in a pandemic. Another such constant is their collective ear for melody and knack for writing smart, sharp, and infectious indie-pop knockouts. Thankfully, one constant remains the unique, jubilant, unassailable bond that sews this brilliant London band together and what that does for their music, too. And in this world of constant change, we yearn for the familiarity of a constant. So much has changed, continues to change, and promises to change some more. That was a coming-of-age record, bold songs for Saturday nights and sad songs for Sunday mornings. The last time you heard them it was welcoming the release of their dazzling second album, Walking Like We Do, back in January 2020, when life was very different to how it is now. THEMES: Motherhood, parenthood, birth, lockdown, friendships, love.
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