jasmine.4.t has released her debut album ‘You Are The Morning’ via Saddest Factory Records, alongside sharing a new video for album track ‘Guy Fawkes Tesco Dissociation’.
The Manchester-based singer-songwriter, who is the first UK signee to Phoebe Bridgers’ label, worked with Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus on the album’s production at Sound City Studios in Los Angeles.
Speaking about ‘Guy Fawkes Tesco Dissociation’, jasmine.4.t says: “A few years ago, I was sleeping on my best friend Han’s living room floor in Manchester for a few nights. I had come out as trans to my closest people back home in Bristol, my life had fallen apart, my marriage had ended terribly, and I had nowhere to stay. I was struggling with extreme PTSD symptoms and making plans to kill myself. I remember being in Han’s bathtub, crying in the dark and her making me promise not to go through with it.”
“It feels so much to be writing this now, in the next chapter I imagined in the second verse. I cried writing this when I remembered the line ‘find connection next to true self, something larger than my life’, because I am in the brighter future that I could never have foreseen from where I was when I wrote it. I want this story to bring hope to anyone going through what I went through.”
The album features contributions from jasmine.4.t’s all-trans band – Phoenix Rousiamanis on piano and strings, Eden O’Brien on drums and Emily Abbott on bass – alongside guest appearances from Baker, Bridgers, Dacus, Claud, Becca Mancari, E.R. Fightmaster and the Trans Chorus of Los Angeles.
Her dates in full read:
JANUARY
17 Crash Records, Leeds, UK
18 Banquet Records, Kingston upon Thames, UK
19 Rough Trade Denmark Street, London, UK
FEBRUARY
15 Troxy, London, UK
MARCH
10 SXSW, Austin TX, USA
APRIL
16 The Met, Philadelphia PA, USA
18 The Anthem, Washington DC, USA
21 MGM Music Hall at Fenway, Boston MA, USA
23 Radio City Music Hall, New York City NY, USA
25 Massey Hall, Toronto, CA
29 The Ryman Auditorium, Nashville TN, USA
MAY
1 The Chicago Theatre, Chicago IL, USA
5 The Palace Theatre, St Paul MN, USA
7 The Midland Theatre, Kansas City MO, USA
9 Winspear Opera House, Dallas TX, USA
10 Moody Amphitheatre, Austin TX, USA
12 Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Colorado, USA
14 The Greek Theatre, Los Angeles CA, USA
21 King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow, UK
23 Wide Awake Festival, London, UK
24 Dot to Dot Festival, Bristol, UK
25 Dot to Dot Festival, Nottingham, UK
27 The Lexington, London, UK
28 Green Door Store, Brighton, UK
29 Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, UK
31 Deaf Institute, Manchester, UK
JUNE
2 Whelan’s, Dublin, IE
14 Best Kept Secret, Hilvarenbeek, NE
JULY
26 Truck Festival, Oxfordshire, UK
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