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Don't Let the Kids Win
Singer-Songwriter · 2016

Don't Let the Kids Win

Julia Jacklin

Intimate indie folk defined by clean, twangy guitar lines and a narrative voice that navigates the anxieties of early adulthood with startling, unvarnished honesty.

2016 · Liberation Records

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Don't Let the Kids Win is an album that feels like a private conversation overheard through a thin apartment wall. Julia Jacklin manages to capture the specific, paralyzing anxiety of being in your early twenties: the feeling that time is moving too fast, that your family is aging, and that you are somehow failing to keep up with an invisible timeline. The sonic palette is remarkably disciplined, relying on clean electric guitars with just a hint of tremolo and Jacklin's breathy, alto delivery. It avoids the lush overproduction common in mid-2010s indie folk, opting instead for a dry, intimate sound that puts her lyrical vulnerability front and center.

Moments Worth Listening For
the way the title track's vocal melody climbs and then breaks slightly on the phrase 'don't let the kids win'
the sudden shift from sparse electric guitar to a fuller, driving rhythm section midway through 'Coming of Age'
the intimate, almost uncomfortably close vocal recording on 'Pool Party' that captures every breath between lines
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