Julia Jacklin, has announced her new The Gem, will arrive on September 25 via 4AD, her debut for the legendary UK label. Ahead of the LP’s arrival, the Australian artist has shared lead single, “Get Away From Me (I Think I’ll Love You Soon)” as well as details of a summer run of solo in-store performances in the UK. The Gem was produced and recorded by Jacklin and Robert Muinos in Melbourne. The LP is the follow up to the artist’s previous full -length PRE PLEASURE, released in 2022.

Jacklin will hit the road for a solo tour of indie stores, offering fans the first chance to hear songs from The Gem performed live. The in-store performances and signing sessions will take place in Dublin (Spindizzy. 28 June), Brighton (Resident, 29 June), London (Rough Trade East, 30 June), Liverpool (Jacaranda, 2 July) and Nottingham (Rough Trade, 3 July). Jacklin will then tour North America, UK and Europe beginning October 2026 and throughout 2027.

“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,” says Jacklin. It’s also the theme that underpins The Gem.

When Jacklin first moved to Melbourne from Sydney in 2017, she discovered a little bar on a back street in Collingwood, where bands pushed dining tables to the side and set up in a corner on the floor. She didn’t know anyone in town but knew she wanted to make the city her home, so she started hanging out there, forcing herself out of her comfort zone. The pub was named The Gem.

For the recording sessions, She called up an old drinking buddy Robert Muinos, owner of Rat Shack studios, which is located above The Gem, and brought in friends Jacob Diamond (guitar), Mimi Gilbert (bass), and Jess Elwood (drums). Recording happened in close quarters, in converted hotel room accommodation upstairs at the pub. As it was a residential bar, they couldn’t record late into the night for fear of bothering the neighbour and sound bleed was a glorious constraint: foot traffic to the hairdresser and the tattoo parlour next door, loud music from the bands and the kitchen crew downstairs. If anyone needed a break from the sessions, they would venture downstairs and watch a band playing. Jacklin and the band even played two unannounced shows there to try out the songs before recording them.

They thought they’d smash out the record in two weeks, like she’d always done, but that wasn’t the case. In fact, it took nearly a year of tinkering to arrive at something Jacklin could get behind. “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.” It 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.

The band got matching tattoos on the last day of The Gem sessions: a neat little circle to represent an opal – Jacklin’s favourite gemstone. Fittingly, one of the bartenders at The Gem did it. “It did really feel like we’d done something special together. And I think as a group, it felt important to commemorate it. I’m glad we all have these little gems on us.”

Julia Jacklin
The Gem
Tracklisting
4AD

1. Brand New
2. God Sometimes
3. If I Had The Hand Of God
4. The Hardest Thing
5. Angel Vision
6. Real Life
7. Get Away From Me (I Think I’ll Love You Soon)
8. You Turned On The Tap
9. Walk On Me
10. I Wish [feat. The Maes]

Julia Jacklin 2026 Tour Dates

28 June – DUBLIN, IRELAND, Spindizzy (solo performance + signing)
29 June – BRIGHTON, UK, Resident (solo performance + signing)
30 June – LONDON, UK, Rough Trade East (solo performance + signing)
2 July – LIVERPOOL, UK, Jacaranda (solo performance + signing)
3 July – NOTTINGHAM, UK, Rough Trade (solo performance + signing)
20 October – SAN DIEGO, CA, USA, The Observatory North Park
22 October – LOS ANGELES, CA, USA, The Wiltern
23 October – SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA, The Castro Theatre
26 October – PORTLAND, OR, USA, Crystal Ballroom
27 October – VANCOUVER, CANADA, Commodore Ballroom
28 October – SEATTLE, WA, USA, The Moore Theatre
30 October – SALT LAKE CITY, UT, USA, Metro Music Hall
31 October – DENVER, CO, USA, Gothic Theatre
2 November – DALLAS, TX, USA, Studio at Bomb Factory
3 November – AUSTIN, TX, USA, Radio/East
4 November – HOUSTON, TX, USA, White Oak Music Hall (Downstairs)
6 November – ATLANTA, GA, USA, Variety Playhouse
7 November – NASHVILLE, TN, USA, Brooklyn Bowl
9 November – CARRBORO, NC, USA, Cat’s Cradle
10 November – WASHINGTON, D.C., USA, Lincoln Theatre
11 November – PITTSBURGH, PA, USA, Mr. Small’s Theatre
13 November – MINNEAPOLIS, MN, USA, First Avenue
14 November – CHICAGO, IL, USA, The Riviera Theatre
15 November – TORONTO, CANADA, Danforth Music Hall
17 November – MONTREAL, CANADA, Théâtre Beanfield
19 November – BROOKLYN, NY, USA, Brooklyn Paramount
20 November – BOSTON, MA, USA, Royale
21 November – PHILADELPHA, PA, USA, Union Transfer

2027

13 February – BIRMINGHAM, UK, Town Hall
14 February – MANCHESTER, UK, Albert Hall
15 February – DUBLIN, IRELAND, National Stadium
17 February – GLASGOW, UK, Barrowland Ballroom
18 February – BRISTOL, UK, Beacon
19 February – LONDON, UK, Eventim Apollo
21 February – BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, Le Botanique
22 February – BERLIN, GERMANY, Festsaal Kreuzberg
23 February – HAMBURG, GERMANY, Kent Club
24 February – COPENHAGEN, DENMARK, DR Koncerthuset
26 February – AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS, Paradiso
27 February – PARIS, FRANCE, Cabaret Sauvage
1 March – BARCELONA, SPAIN, La [2] de Apolo
2 March – MADRID, SPAIN, Sala Mon Live
3 March – LISBON, PORTUGAL, LAV

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