Julia Jacklin has a new Album, Shares New Song “Get Away From Me (I Think I’ll Love You Soon)”
The Australian singer/songwriter Julia Jacklin has announced a new album, The Gem, and shared its first single, “Get Away From Me (I Think I’ll Love You Soon),” via a self-directed music video. “The Gem” is due out September 25th via 4AD Records. check out the new song, followed by the album details and her upcoming tour dates.
Julia Jacklin has become one of indie rock’s most distinctive voices, pairing a twangy Australian croon with brash, cutting lyrics. “Get Away From Me (I Think I’ll Love You Soon), the lead single from her forthcoming LP “The Gem“, finds Jacklin doing what she does best: pulling her hair out over a likely doomed love affair. It recalls 2022’s “I Was Neon,” a standout, albeit more upbeat. Backed by fuzzy guitars and a marching drumbeat, Jacklin’s husky, crackling alto sears through the tension of wanting to be held and wanting to be free. “You don’t have to be careful,” she croons, “I don’t have to be right / You don’t have to call me up, darling / If you don’t come home tonight.” A sparkly, jangly guitar solo makes for a delightful intermission amid the heartbreak Jacklin spends the rest of the song nursing.
Jacklin recently announced that she’d signed a worldwide deal with the iconic British label 4AD and also announced some 2026 and 2027 tour dates.
Jacklin produced the album with Robert Muinos and it was recorded entirely in Melbourne. In 2017 she moved to the city from Sydney. She knew hardly anyone in Melbourne and started hanging out in a pub called The Gem. Muinos, described as an old drinking buddy, is the owner of Rat Shack studios, which is above The Gem. There Jacklin teamed up with Jacob Diamond (guitar), Mimi Gilbert (bass), and Jess Elwood (drums) to record the album. Previous Jacklin albums were knocked out in a couple of weeks, but she laboured over this one for nearly a year.
“The Hardest Thing” another track from the album Premiered today by Jack Saunders on his BBC Radio 1 show, the song is accompanied by a one-shot music video directed by Danny Cohen and filmed entirely from a helicopter winding through the Melbourne city skyline.
“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,” says Jacklin in a press release.
Of the main theme of “The Gem”, Jacklin adds: “I want to love and be loved, but I also want to be free. The tension between those two things has been the central question of my life.”
Jacklin’s last album was 2022’s “PRE PLEASURE“, released via Polyvinyl . It followed 2019’s acclaimed “Crushing” and 2016’s “Don’t Let the Kids Win“.
Jacklin is also in the band Phantastic Ferniture. They released two new songs—“Change My Mind” and “Dare to Fall in Love”—in 2025.
“The Gem” Due Out September 25th via 4AD Records
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