Julia Jacklin’s new album Crushing is crushing my heart and soul with its raw and melodic sound that keeps giving. The twenty-eight-year-old Australian singer released her second full length album on February 22nd, 2019. She says this album was created from the emotions and events she went through being on tour for over two years as well as being in a long-term relationship at the same time. She states on her self titled website, “For a long time I felt like my head was full of fear and my body was just this functional thing that carried me from point A to B, and writing these songs was like rejoining the two.”
You can truly feel the emotion coming through in every song, she doesn’t sugar coat the lyrics with gooey vocabulary, rather being as blunt and forward as possible in a beautiful way. The first song that starts the album off is “Body”, the story of a break up and trying to find herself again, the memorable lines of “I guess it’s just my life, And it’s just my body,” is accompanied by the slow mellow sound of the drums, a bass and a guitar. The song almost feels like a dream state, her unique voice carries the lyrics intimately the whole way through. “Body” is also one of two songs from the album with its own music video, in which she is euphorically shot driving around the country roads of Australia as the sun sets and whimsically dancing in front of a star at the end. The next track on the album “Head Alone” is an upbeat song with a message about the struggles of feeling like your body isn’t yours, the pull back and forth of relationship and tour pressures and the way she was treated differently than the males around her physically. The memorable lyrics of “I don’t want to be touched all the time, I raised my body up to be mine” really drives what she is saying home. “Pressure to Party” is another upbeat fast paced song on the list with a serious tone in the lyrics, a song about the struggle of breaking up and everyone around you telling you that going out and having a “good time” is the way to get over it. Julia states, “That song is just my three-minute scream, saying I’m going to do what I need to do, when I need to do it”. The last song on the album is titled “Comfort”, a slow sorrowful sounding acoustic guitar accompanies the lyrics about breaking up with someone and hoping they’re okay, yet, can’t check on them. The last music video for this album, Julia is at a water park while being filmed in a vintage style shot, a simple video for a simple but powerful song.
Overall the album is very well rounded and shines a light on the uniquely powerful voice of Julia Jacklin, I highly recommend checking this album out from beginning to end. Julia is also starting her next tour on March 6th 2019 in Australia but will make her way over to the United States by the end of April and eventually to our good ole state of Texas by the beginning of June with shows in Austin, Dallas and Houston. If you have a weekend go and support this up and coming artist.
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