The Big Moon chat not listening to their own album and backing Loyle Carner at the 2017 Hyundai Mercury Prize

Everyone’s favourite celestial indie legends The Big Moon are nominated for tonight’s 2017 Hyundai Mercury Prize with their stonking debut ‘Love In The 4th Dimension’ (which, FYI, we gave five stars on these very pages).

Speaking on the red carpet ahead of the ceremony, the band joked that they weren’t nervous and that doing interviews was keeping them distracted (we aim to please).

Talking about revisiting their album, which was released back at the start of April, singer Jules Jackson admitted that she hadn’t actually listened to the record in almost as long. “We listened to it once all the way through in the van three or four months after we recorded it and that’s the last time I heard it,” she said.

Drummer Fern Ford, meanwhile, explained that she’d been attempting to suss out the band’s ranking among their competitors (including The Big Moon’s own choice of winner, Londoner Loyle Carner). “I listened to it the other day because I was listening to the other bands and I wanted to imagine being someone listening to it in the context of the other ones, but it was too hard,” she laughed.

Listen to The Big Moon-curated 2017 Hyundai Mercury Prize playlist via Apple Music below.