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Album Review: Julia Jacklin - Dont Let The Kids Win

Samantha Jonscher
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"Equal parts lovely and disquieting."

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Don't Let The Kids Win brings the cosiness, warmth and suburban intimacy of Jacklin's creamy voice and knee-high socks to the studio.

On this debut LP, the Blue Mountains local shows off her debt to Angel Olsen's dark Americana and Fiona Apple's lithe storytelling - the result is equal parts lovely and disquieting. These are stories about "getting older", as she sings on the eponymous final track, but this is an album about loss and the tricks of memory. Everything from Jacklin's consciously retro guitar to her doo-wop rhythms are designed to play tricks on the mind.