# Hearing loss inspires The Big Moon’s joyful, life-affirming fourth album

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/the-big-moon-forever-review-the-hell-of-hearing-loss-inspires-a-defiantly-hopeful-pop-disco-marvel/
- Published: 2026-10-29T12:00:43+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-29T13:07:19+00:00
- Original publisher: The Guardian (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/oct/29/the-big-moon-forever-review
- Topics: Culture, Elections, Entertainment, Music, Politics, Space, Technology

## Key points

- Hearing loss prompted Jackson to rethink her songwriting.
- *Forever* turns difficult experiences into hopeful pop-disco.
- Its songs celebrate everyday joy and life’s fleeting moments.

## Summary

Juliette Jackson’s experience of hearing loss after a cholesteatoma diagnosis became the starting point for The Big Moon’s fourth album, *Forever*. Instead of continuing to write songs she found too miserable, she imagined a happy ending, turning a period of fear and frustration into an exuberant pop-disco record.

The album’s bright sound gives its songs about everyday joys and life’s fleeting moments an added emotional weight. “Gravity” finds rapture in picking up her child from nursery, while “F.O.R.E.V.E.R” urges listeners to value milestones and moments as they pass. The review describes the result as joyful, uplifting and convincing.

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