Description
The second full-length album from Julia Jacklin, Crushing, embodies every possible meaning of its title. Its an album formed from sheer intensity of feeling, an in-the-moment narrative of heartbreak and infatuation. And with her storytelling centred on bodies and crossed boundaries and smothering closeness, Crushing reveals how our physical experience of the world shapes and sometimes distorts our inner lives.
The follow-up to her critically acclaimed 2016 debut Dont Let The Kids Win, Crushing finds Jacklin continually acknowledging whats expected of her, then gracefully rejecting those expectations. As a result, the album invites self-examination and a possible shift in the listeners way of getting around the world an effect that has everything to do with Jacklins openness about her own experience.
Produced by Burke Reid (Courtney Barnett, Liam Finn) and recorded at The Grove Studios, Crushing sets Jacklins understated defiance against a raw yet luminous sonic backdrop. In all the songs, you can hear every sound from every instrument; you can hear my throat and hear me breathing, she says. It was really important to me that you can hear everything for the whole record, without any studio tricks getting in the way.
Whilst a moving and complex listen, Crushing unfolds with an ease that echoes Jacklins newfound self-reliance as an artist. With the first album I was so nervous and didnt quite see myself as a musician yet, but after touring for two years, Ive come to feel like I deserve to be in that space, she says.
Throughout Crushing that sense of confidence manifests in one of the most essential elements of the album: the captivating strength of Jacklins lyrics. Not only proof of her ingenuity and artistic generosity, Jacklins uncompromising specificity and infinitely unpredictable turns of phrase ultimately spring from a certain selfpossession in the songwriting process.
LP pressed on green vinyl with digital download code included.
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