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I remember one day talking to a woman at a bar about life because we should all have deep conversations with strangers (lol). Yet, I was taken aback by her assessment that there is something beautiful about heartbreak. To her, there is a certain wonder to the tears that fall from devastation of love lost. Of course, I thought she was mad, but Julia Jacklin’s performance at Music Hall of Williamsburg showed me that, “Yes, there is beauty to heartbreak.”
Julia Jacklin – Leadlight (Official Video)

Jacklin’s performance is like seeing an open heart before you. It is there beating, pumping, and pulsing in bare air according to every breakup and breakthrough a young woman can undergo. I reviewed Julia’ s Don’t Let The Kids Win, and marveled at it raw expressiveness of the Millennial, feminine experience. She fully grasps the feeling we have in our twenty-somethings of not being held. The “mid-twenty life crisis” is a real thing as this decade is dedicated to getting the solid job, good family, and the semblance of stability. Yet, as this generation knows and Julia Jacklin sings, such stability might be a late thirties achievement. While the radiant singer closes her eyes while performing, as if to dream her notes forward, I recalled the lady from the above story, and agreed that melancholia is so popular in music because it is also pretty. Songs like “LA Dream”, “Motherland”, and “Hey Plain” are like the thoughts you get when you look out the window on a rainy day and feel blanketed in the mood of a grey cloud. Jacklin casts over audiences a thoughtfulness stemming from having a voice that is clear and cleansing like, rain dropping from the sky. There is an inherent feeling/pleading from her vocals that says,” Julia Jacklin knows what is it to feel lost in this world, but she also knows how to find herself again and again”.
Julia Jacklin – Pool Party (Official Video)

The line between heartache and resilience is what makes melancholia so beautiful. It is about being at the bottom of an emotional hole and having the strength to look up. “Pool Party” and “Leadlight” have that bluesy-rock feel that make Jacklin appear alone on stage, despite being backed by a great band. Still, when you are playing to the vivid loneliness of being in a souring relationship, of course, you are going to build a lonely aura. Yet, that aura played to her lyrics on being alone and being in love, which made her have a personal connection to very member of the MHOW crowd. Although a sweet woman with a coy friendliness, it was when she sang with her guitar in hand that she became a universal figure those of us confused about life but do not mind being lost in a good song. For More Information On Julia Jacklin Click Here.
Julia Jacklin – Don’t Let The Kids Win (Official Video)