{"product_id":"julia-jacklin-the-gem-turquoise-vinyl-4ad-pre-order-out-9-25-26","title":"Julia Jacklin - The Gem (Turquoise Vinyl, 4AD) PRE-ORDER - Out 9\/25\/26","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is a pre-order. It will ship on or around 9\/25\/26\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eJulia\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eJacklin\u003c\/span\u003e has made a name for herself as one of Australia’s most internationally celebrated songwriters, with nominations at both the ARIA and Libera Awards, sold-out shows globally, massive tours, appearing on major festival stages from Glastonbury to Pitchfork, Newport Folk to Primavera, with countless accolades for her critically acclaimed albums.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter touring flat-out for years on three beloved releases, \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eJulia\u003c\/span\u003e found herself at home out of contract with her record label, looking for a new manager. “For the first time since I started out, I had this big chunk of time without any industry expectations and no-one to ask me what was going on,” she remembers. “It was liberating and it was scary.” \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eJacklin\u003c\/span\u003e wanted to do things intentionally this time around. She wanted to back herself. And she wanted to make the record at home in Melbourne: something she’d never done before.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“I want to love and be loved, but I also want to feel free. The tension between those two things has been the central question of my life,” \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eJulia\u003c\/span\u003e says. This is the theme that underpins her fourth album \u003cem\u003eThe Gem.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eJulia\u003c\/span\u003e first moved to Melbourne from Sydney in 2017, she discovered a little bar called The Gem on a back street in Collingwood, where bands pushed dining tables to the side and set up in a corner on the floor.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Gem\u003c\/em\u003e felt like a metaphor for the whole process, because a lot of it did feel like digging. I felt like I was almost doing it in the dark, just trusting that I was going to find something,” says \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eJacklin\u003c\/span\u003e of the record, which conjures images of excavation, of reinvention, of trusting your instincts and surrounding yourself with the people and things that make life worthwhile. It’s a soaring document of the songwriter’s journey back to herself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jackpot Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48067669033178,"sku":null,"price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0624\/5705\/3402\/files\/unnamed_9_0ac1a1dc-199c-4fb4-a623-f8c7c29d51be.jpg?v=1781650430","url":"https:\/\/jackpotrecords.com\/products\/julia-jacklin-the-gem-turquoise-vinyl-4ad-pre-order-out-9-25-26","provider":"Jackpot Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}