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Pre Pleasure

Julia Jacklin


Indie artist Julia Jacklin's latest album, PRE PLEASURE, is available on Neon Purple Butterfly vinyl.

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VMP Exclusive Pressing

This is a VMP Exclusive record, and you can't get this specific variation anywhere else.

Exclusive Features
color Neon Purple Butterfly
foil stamped Yes
numbered Yes
Other Features
download code Yes
exclusive VMP Exclusive
jacket style Direct-To-Board
jacket type Gatefold
label Polyvinyl
release type New Release

By the Numbers


1LP

format

2022

original release year

331/3
rpm

speed

750

total pressing quantity

12
inch

vinyl size

standard

weight

Description


Since releasing her debut album Don’t Let the Kids Win in 2016, Melbourne’s Julia Jacklin has carved out a fearsome reputation as a direct lyricist, willing to excavate the parameters of intimacy and agency in songs both stark and raw, loose, and playful. If her debut announced those intentions, and the startling 2018 follow-up Crushing drew in listeners uncomfortably close, PRE PLEASURE is the sound of Jacklin gently loosening her grip.

Stirring piano-led opener "Lydia Wears A Cross" channels the underage confusion of being told religion is profound, despite only feeling it during the spectacle of its pageantry. The gentle pulse of "Love, Try Not To Let Go" and dreamy strings of "Ignore Tenderness" betray an interrogation of consent and emotional injury. The stark "Less Of A Stranger" picks at the generational thread of a mother/daughter relationship, while the hymnal "Too In Love To Die" and loose jam of "Be Careful With Yourself" equate true love with the fear of losing it.

Recorded in Montreal with co-producer Marcus Paquin (The Weather Station, The National), PRE PLEASURE finds Jacklin teamed with her Canada-based touring band, bassist Ben Whiteley and guitarist Will Kidman, both of Canadian folk outfit The Weather Station. It also introduces drummer Laurie Torres, saxophonist Adam Kinner and string arrangements by Owen Pallett (Arcade Fire) recorded by a full orchestra in Prague.

PRE PLEASURE presents Jacklin as her most authentic self; an uncompromising and masterful lyricist, always willing to mine the depths of her own life experience, and singular in translating it into deeply personal, timeless songs.

Limited to 750 copies, the VMP exclusive edition of Julia Jacklin's PRE PLEASURE is pressed on 1LP Neon Purple Butterfly vinyl and will arrive in a gatefold direct-to-board, foil stamped and numbered jacket along with a download code for the album.

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Pre Pleasure

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