Singer-songwriter Julia Jacklin returns today with new single "Lydia Wears a Cross" and details of her highly-anticipated third album, as well as the announcement of a world tour.
PRE PLEASURE comes on August 26 via Polyvinyl. It follows Jacklin's 2019 sophomore effort Crushing and her 2016 debut Don't Let the Kids Win.
While she may be Australian, Jacklin recorded the album in Montreal with co-producer Marcus Paquin, with her touring band (featuring Ben Whiteley and Will Kidman of the Weather Station) also being based out of Canada. Owen Pallett also contributed string arrangements, which were recorded by a full orchestra in Prague.
"For the first time I stepped away from the guitar, and wrote a lot of the album on the Roland keyboard in my apartment in Montreal with its inbuilt band tracks. I blu-tacked reams of butcher paper to the walls, covered in lyrics and ideas, praying to the music gods that my brain would arrange everything in time," the artist said of the process, which began upon her return from a massive world tour in support of Crushing. She's plotted a similar one later in the year for PRE PLEASURE, which will bring her back to the album's birthplace as well as Toronto's Phoenix Concert Theatre and Vancouver's Commodore Ballroom with Katy Kirby in tow.
"A lot of the time I feel like I need to do all the work before I can enjoy my life," Jacklin explained of the titular sentiment in a statement. "Whether that's work on songs or sex, friendships, or my relationship with my family – I think if I work on them long and hard enough, eventually I'll get to sit around and really enjoy them. But that's not how anything works is it. It's all an ongoing process." She spent much of the last two years trying to reconnect with the purity of music fandom she lost when music became her career, citing listening to a lot of "big pop music" like Celine Dion, Robyn and Luther Vandross.
Of the lead single, she added: "The song is about a lot of things, but mainly being a seven-year-old Jesus Christ Superstar fanatic attending catholic school, trying to figure out which way is up." It builds from a sparse drum machine as Jacklin delivers her signature affected, uncompromising lyrics, roaring to a new dimension with a blistering guitar line and an understated swirl of synths.
Watch the video for "Lydia Wears a Cross" below, and keep scrolling for the album tracklist and full tour itinerary.
PRE PLEASURE:
1. Lydia Wears a Cross
2. Love, Try Not to Let Go
3. Ignore Tenderness
4. I Was Neon
5. Too in Love to Die
6. Less of a Stranger
7. Moviegoer
8. Magic
9. Be Careful with Yourself
10. End of a Friendship
Pre-order PRE PLEASURE.
Julia Jacklin 2022 Tour Dates:
08/26 Stanford, CA Frost Amphitheater (Here and There Festival)
08/27 Pasadena, CA This Ain't No Picnic Festival
09/09 Austin, TX Mohawk #
09/10 Dallas, TX The Studio at The Factory #
09/12 Nashville, TN The Basement East #
09/13 Atlanta, GA Terminal West #
09/15 Washington, DC 9:30 Club #
09/16 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Steel #
09/17 Philadelphia, PA Underground Arts #
09/18 Boston, MA Paradise Rock Club #
09/20 Montreal, QC Corona Theatre $
09/21 Toronto, ON Phoenix Concert Theatre $
09/22 Grand Rapids, MI Calvin University $
09/23 Chicago, IL Thalia Hall $
09/24 Minneapolis, MN Fine Line $
09/26 Denver, CO Bluebird Theater $
09/27 Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge $
09/29 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom $
09/30 Seattle, WA The Crocodile $
10/02 Portland, OR Revolution Hall $
10/04 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore $
10/05 Solana Beach, CA Belly Up Tavern $
10/07 Los Angeles, CA The Fonda Theatre $
10/08 Phoenix, AZ Crescent Ballroom $
11/03 Dublin, Ireland - Vicar Street &
11/05 Glasgow, Scotland - SWG3 TV Studio &
11/06 Manchester, UK - The Ritz &
11/07 Birmingham, UK - The Mill &
11/09 Bristol, UK - SWX &
11/10 Brighton, UK - Chalk &
11/11 London, UK - Roundhouse &
11/13 Paris, France - La Maroquinerie &
11/14 Antwerp, Belgium - Trix Club &
11/15 Cologne, Germany - Club Bahnhof Ehrenfeld &
11/17 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso &
11/18 Hamburg, Germany - Knust &
11/20 Oslo, Norway - Parkteatret &
11/21 Stockholm, Sweden - Slaktkyrkan &
11/22 Copenhagen, Denmark - Dr Koncerthuset &
11/24 Berlin, Germany - Columbia Theatre &
11/25 Munich, Germany - Strom &
11/26 Zurich, Switzerland - Plaza &
11/27 Milan, Italy - Magnolia &
11/29 Barcelona, Spain - Apolo &
11/30 Madrid, Spain - SalaMon &
12/01 Lisbon, Portugal - Lav &
# with Kara Jackson
$ with Katy Kirby
& with Erin Rae
PRE PLEASURE comes on August 26 via Polyvinyl. It follows Jacklin's 2019 sophomore effort Crushing and her 2016 debut Don't Let the Kids Win.
While she may be Australian, Jacklin recorded the album in Montreal with co-producer Marcus Paquin, with her touring band (featuring Ben Whiteley and Will Kidman of the Weather Station) also being based out of Canada. Owen Pallett also contributed string arrangements, which were recorded by a full orchestra in Prague.
"For the first time I stepped away from the guitar, and wrote a lot of the album on the Roland keyboard in my apartment in Montreal with its inbuilt band tracks. I blu-tacked reams of butcher paper to the walls, covered in lyrics and ideas, praying to the music gods that my brain would arrange everything in time," the artist said of the process, which began upon her return from a massive world tour in support of Crushing. She's plotted a similar one later in the year for PRE PLEASURE, which will bring her back to the album's birthplace as well as Toronto's Phoenix Concert Theatre and Vancouver's Commodore Ballroom with Katy Kirby in tow.
"A lot of the time I feel like I need to do all the work before I can enjoy my life," Jacklin explained of the titular sentiment in a statement. "Whether that's work on songs or sex, friendships, or my relationship with my family – I think if I work on them long and hard enough, eventually I'll get to sit around and really enjoy them. But that's not how anything works is it. It's all an ongoing process." She spent much of the last two years trying to reconnect with the purity of music fandom she lost when music became her career, citing listening to a lot of "big pop music" like Celine Dion, Robyn and Luther Vandross.
Of the lead single, she added: "The song is about a lot of things, but mainly being a seven-year-old Jesus Christ Superstar fanatic attending catholic school, trying to figure out which way is up." It builds from a sparse drum machine as Jacklin delivers her signature affected, uncompromising lyrics, roaring to a new dimension with a blistering guitar line and an understated swirl of synths.
Watch the video for "Lydia Wears a Cross" below, and keep scrolling for the album tracklist and full tour itinerary.
PRE PLEASURE:
1. Lydia Wears a Cross
2. Love, Try Not to Let Go
3. Ignore Tenderness
4. I Was Neon
5. Too in Love to Die
6. Less of a Stranger
7. Moviegoer
8. Magic
9. Be Careful with Yourself
10. End of a Friendship
Pre-order PRE PLEASURE.
Julia Jacklin 2022 Tour Dates:
08/26 Stanford, CA Frost Amphitheater (Here and There Festival)
08/27 Pasadena, CA This Ain't No Picnic Festival
09/09 Austin, TX Mohawk #
09/10 Dallas, TX The Studio at The Factory #
09/12 Nashville, TN The Basement East #
09/13 Atlanta, GA Terminal West #
09/15 Washington, DC 9:30 Club #
09/16 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Steel #
09/17 Philadelphia, PA Underground Arts #
09/18 Boston, MA Paradise Rock Club #
09/20 Montreal, QC Corona Theatre $
09/21 Toronto, ON Phoenix Concert Theatre $
09/22 Grand Rapids, MI Calvin University $
09/23 Chicago, IL Thalia Hall $
09/24 Minneapolis, MN Fine Line $
09/26 Denver, CO Bluebird Theater $
09/27 Salt Lake City, UT Urban Lounge $
09/29 Vancouver, BC Commodore Ballroom $
09/30 Seattle, WA The Crocodile $
10/02 Portland, OR Revolution Hall $
10/04 San Francisco, CA The Fillmore $
10/05 Solana Beach, CA Belly Up Tavern $
10/07 Los Angeles, CA The Fonda Theatre $
10/08 Phoenix, AZ Crescent Ballroom $
11/03 Dublin, Ireland - Vicar Street &
11/05 Glasgow, Scotland - SWG3 TV Studio &
11/06 Manchester, UK - The Ritz &
11/07 Birmingham, UK - The Mill &
11/09 Bristol, UK - SWX &
11/10 Brighton, UK - Chalk &
11/11 London, UK - Roundhouse &
11/13 Paris, France - La Maroquinerie &
11/14 Antwerp, Belgium - Trix Club &
11/15 Cologne, Germany - Club Bahnhof Ehrenfeld &
11/17 Amsterdam, Netherlands - Paradiso &
11/18 Hamburg, Germany - Knust &
11/20 Oslo, Norway - Parkteatret &
11/21 Stockholm, Sweden - Slaktkyrkan &
11/22 Copenhagen, Denmark - Dr Koncerthuset &
11/24 Berlin, Germany - Columbia Theatre &
11/25 Munich, Germany - Strom &
11/26 Zurich, Switzerland - Plaza &
11/27 Milan, Italy - Magnolia &
11/29 Barcelona, Spain - Apolo &
11/30 Madrid, Spain - SalaMon &
12/01 Lisbon, Portugal - Lav &
# with Kara Jackson
$ with Katy Kirby
& with Erin Rae
