First work, then pleasure — most of us must have heard this very old-fashioned saying in their childhood. On her third album PRE PLEASURE, Australian singer/songwriter Julia Jacklin explores the idea of only being able to relax when the to-do list is ticked off: “Right when pleasure begins, my education kicks in,” she sings on ” Ignore Tenderness”.
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Jacklin processes the deep-seated embossing on PRE PLEASURE. While her last records were still audibly centered around the guitar, this time Jacklin sat down at her keyboard to compose PRE PLEASURE and enriched the production with synths, saxophone and the strings of a Prague orchestra. But her original penchant for folk also returns on “Less Of A Stranger” — a gentle reflection on her distant relationship with her mother.
“End Of A Friendship” is programmatically the last song on the record: Accompanied by weightless strings and country-esque guitars, it describes how a friendship slowly slips away in the inability to find the right words. PRE PLEASURE features a gentle, introspective Jacklin, more lucid but also more elusive than on previous albums.
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