jasmine.4.t. – You Are the Morning

With lives as cynical as all those born between 1990 and 2010 are predestined to have, and as tragic as our short-lived beauties often find themselves, it’s a wonder some people find the time to uplift each other. On jasmine.4.t’s debut record, You Are the Morning, it’s often accomplished by Jasmine Cruickshank uplifting herself first. In a sad world that expresses its hopes in oblique ironies, my soul leaps out for the simple sincerity of her music. The forces encircling her messages of gender acceptance and self-actualisation may be moustache-twirlingly evil, but jasmine.4.t is a righteous silver bullet.

The record proves to be slightly more interesting in its lyrical content than its musical content, but that’s more a compliment than a dig. It plays the softer than silk, pseudo-gospel rock style of boygenius with heart and emphatically hits every pacing beat on its checklist. It’s a hearty and delicate mixture of self-love and how it's forged. Since so little is delicate, maybe our love should remain.

Listen to: Elephant, Woman, Skin on Skin