Julia Jacklin has announced a new album, The Gem. The Australian singer-songwriter will share the Pre Pleasure follow-up on September 25 via her new label, 4AD. Below, listen to the first single “Get Away From Me (I Think I’ll Love You Soon).”

“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 said in press materials.“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.”

The Gem is titled after a pub and live music venue in Melbourne, Australia, where Jacklin moved from Sydney in 2017. She and her band recorded the album in a hotel room-turned-studio space located right above the bar. Jacklin will tour The Gem across North America and Europe from October through early 2027.

Read about the Pre Pleasure single “Lydia Wears a Cross” at No. 94 in The 100 Best Songs of 2022.

The Gem:
01 Brand New
02 God Sometimes
03 If I Had the Hand of God
04 The Hardest Thing
05 Angel Vision
06 Real Life
07 Get Away From Me (I Think I’ll Love You Soon)
08 You Turned on the Tap
09 Walk on Me
10 I Wish [ft. The Maes]