Julia Jacklin is back with a new record, and it sounds like one built from instinct, patience, and the kind of hard-won clarity that only comes after a little wandering.
The Australian singer-songwriter has announced her fourth studio album, The Gem, arriving September 25, 2026 as her first release on 4AD. Alongside the announcement, Jacklin has shared the first single, “Get Away From Me (I Think I’ll Love You Soon)”, a bright, sharp-edged track that reportedly nods toward eighties jangle-pop and the Melbourne sound she fell for after leaving Sydney. For fans looking for more Julia Jacklin tour dates and ticket information, Concert Addicts also has additional artist event listings and upcoming show details.
What makes this announcement especially interesting is the way The Gem seems tied not just to a batch of new songs, but to a very specific place and period in Jacklin’s life. The album takes its name from a Melbourne bar that became meaningful to her after she relocated there in 2017, a place where she pushed herself out into a new city and slowly began to imagine it as home. Years later, that same space became part of the making of the record itself, with Jacklin and her band recording above the venue in close quarters, living with noise bleed, interruptions, and all the small imperfections that can either derail a session or make it feel alive. In this case, it sounds like it did the latter.
That sense of intimacy has always been central to Jacklin’s appeal. Few songwriters are as good at making inner conflict feel both ordinary and devastating at once. Her songs do not usually scream for attention. They settle in, reveal themselves slowly, and hit hardest when they let uncertainty remain uncertainty. So hearing Jacklin describe the central tension of the album as the desire to love and be loved while still needing freedom feels completely in line with the emotional territory she has long explored so well.
There is also something appealing about the way this record appears to have taken shape. Rather than knocking it out quickly, Jacklin and her collaborators spent nearly a year feeling around in the dark for the right version of it. That kind of process can leave fingerprints on an album. It can make a record feel less manufactured and more excavated, like something uncovered rather than simply assembled. For an artist like Jacklin, whose best work often feels emotionally unearthed rather than designed, that approach makes a lot of sense.
To support the release, Jacklin will head out on a North American, UK, and European tour beginning in October. Canadian stops include Vancouver’s Commodore Ballroom on October 27, Toronto’s Danforth Music Hall on November 15, and Montreal’s Théâtre Beanfield on November 17. If the new single is any indication, The Gem may find Jacklin returning not just with another strong record, but with a renewed sense of where she is standing and who she has become.
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