Julia JacklinBest Julia Jacklin Albums Ranked

Crushing

loudandquiet

9.0

“In 2016 Julia Jacklin came good on what she considered the last roll of the dice. She’d worked the open mic nights of Sydney’s folk scene for five years, harmonised in groups, formed country rock bands, obsessed over Britney Spears and Avril Lavigne when she was a kid. But progress was slow, and her younger sister getting married only compounded her feelings of abject failure disproportionate to h”

Crushing

pastemagazine

8.6

“Autonomy can be damn frightening. The realization—the one arriving after a breakup, before a solo move, following a graduation, etc.—that you’re actually in this thing alone and only you are in the driver’s seat can leave you feeling scared silly. Or it can leave you feeling high on independence. Julia Jacklin’s Crushing is a striking search for self, a call to upend that which tethers you down. ”

Crushing

thelineofbestfit

8.5

“Julia Jacklin returns with the defiant, cathartic Crushing”

Pre Pleasure

pastemagazine

8.3

“The singer bottles 30-something triumphs and terrors into a capsule of characteristically exquisite indie rock”

Pre Pleasure

nme

8.0

“On Julia Jacklin’s impressive third album there’s a recurring lyrical motif of looking in the mirror, and the singer-songwriter understands what she sees. “Been staring at my own reflection,” she sings with a nimble cadence on ‘Ignore Tenderness’, “ever since I was 13 I’ve been pulled in every direction”. There have been obviously turbulent years since, but across these 10 songs they’re processed ”

Crushing

rollingstone

8.0

“Jacklin's second album turns her gaze inward for a striking set of songs about minds, bodies and breakups”