Pre Pleasure

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Pre Pleasure
Julia Jacklin - Pre Pleasure.png
Studio album by
Julia Jacklin
Released26 August 2022 (2022-08-26)
Studio
  • Mixart Studios, Montreal
  • Planet Studios, Montreal
Length37:59
Label
Producer
Julia Jacklin chronology
Crushing
(2019)		Pre Pleasure
(2022)

Pre Pleasure is the third studio album by Australian singer-songwriter Julia Jacklin. It was released on 26 August 2022 under Polyvinyl Record Co. and Transgressive Records. At the 2022 ARIA Music Awards, the album earned Jacklin nominations for Best Solo Artist, Best Independent Release and Best Adult Contemporary Album. [1] The album was also nominated for several other awards, including the Australian Album of the Year at the 2022 J Awards, [2] the Australian Music Prize, [3] Independent Album of the Year at the AIR Awards of 2023, [4] and Best Album at the 2023 Music Victoria Awards. [5]

Contents

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 84/100 [6]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Clash 7/10 [8]
Exclaim! 9/10 [9]
The Independent Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [10]
The Line of Best Fit 7/10 [11]
Mojo Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [12]
The Observer Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [13]
Paste 8.3/10 [14]
Pitchfork 7.4/10 [15]
Uncut 9/10 [16]

Pre Pleasure received critical acclaim from music critics upon its release. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 84, based on 18 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". Kitty Empire of The Observer gave the album four out of five stars, describing it as "a record about the impossibility of communication, and never quite solving your problems". [13] Bella Fleming of The Line of Best Fit indicates that this is Julia's most punchy album so far, "a testament to Julia Jacklin’s ability to adapt and grow as a songwriter". [17] Ellie Robinson of NME wrote that "the material here is some of Jacklin’s most intense, never holding back with her gut-punching ruminations on religion, sex and trauma". [18]

Track listing

All songs are written by Julia Jacklin.

  1. "Lydia Wears a Cross" – 4:02
  2. "Love, Try Not to Let Go" – 3:44
  3. "Ignore Tenderness" – 3:09
  4. "I Was Neon" – 4:03
  5. "Too in Love to Die" – 3:36
  6. "Less of a Stranger" – 4:32
  7. "Moviegoer" – 3:47
  8. "Magic" – 2:59
  9. "Be Careful with Yourself" – 3:48
  10. "End of a Friendship" – 4:24

Personnel

Charts

Chart performance for Pre Pleasure
Chart (2022)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [19] 2
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [20] 11
Scottish Albums (OCC) [21] 11
UK Albums (OCC) [22] 56
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [23] 4

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