Julia Jacklin has announced a new album, The Gem, her first for 4AD. The follow-up to 2022’s PRE PLEASURE is set to arrive on September 25. It’s led by the sprightly and confident ‘Get Away From Me (I Think I’ll Love You Soon)’, which you can check out below.
“I want to love and be loved, but I also want to be free,” Julia Jacklin said in a press release. “The tension between those two things has been the central question of my life. The Gem felt like a metaphor for the whole process, because a lot of it did feel like digging. I felt like I was doing it almost in the dark, just trusting I was going to find something.”
The new album is named after a small bar in Melbourne, Australia, where Jacklin moved from Sydney in 2017. She worked on it with Rat Shack studios owner Robert Muinos, guitarist Jacob Diamond, bassist Mimi Gilbert, and drummer Jess Elwood, recording in a makeshift studio in one of the hotel rooms above the pub.
The Gem Cover Artwork:
The Gem Tracklist:
1. Brand New
2. God Sometimes
3. If I Had the Hand of God
4. The Hardest Thing
5. Angel Vision
6. Real Life
7. Get Away From Me (I Think I’ll Love You Soon)
8. You Turned on the Tap
9. Walk on Me
10. I Wish [feat. The Maes]
