JULIA JACKLIN – CRUSHING: REVIEW
JULIA JACKLIN Crushing (Liberation) There is good reason to talk about how the new Julia Jacklin album takes her beyond the alt.country/Americana bracket she was placed in rather awkwardly last time around. With its forays into almost urgent indie rock and slowcore intensity, and her singing stretching her beyond low-impact torch balladeer, Crushing doesn’t add colours to a narrow picture so much as spread the screen wider to see more of what had been lying there. It’s true e