Jasmine.4.t releases three acoustic tracks on new charity EP
The Phoebe Bridgers-backed singer-songwriter Jasmine.4.t has released a new charity EP, available until the end of June.
The musician has released the EP via Bandcamp, with all proceeds going to UK charity AKT. The EP contains three acoustic versions of the most beloved tracks on her debut album You Are The Morning, including ‘Elephant’, ‘Skin on Skin’, and ‘Guy Fawkes Tesco Dissociation’.
Jasmine said of the EP: “These acoustic versions were the last three things I recorded on my Fostex 4-track tape machine before the transport broke irreparably. We put them on the Japanese release of my album You Are the Morning as bonus tracks. We were originally gonna use the actual demos that got me signed by Phoebe [Bridgers], but my voice has changed a lot since then and I wanted to redo them but in exactly the same way: with two vocal tracks and two guitar tracks, recorded in my bedroom on tape.”
She continued: “You Are The Morning is an album about queer love and hope and solidarity, and so I wanted to share these tracks in that spirit. All the money from these new versions will be donated to akt, a charity in the UK who support young LGBTQIA+ people through housing emergencies. I was homeless and sleeping on the floors and sofas of Manchester’s queer community while I wrote these songs.”
Reminiscing about the walls of support that were the only thing holding the artist up, she concluded the heartfelt statement, saying: “The people who supported me during that time became my family and the muses for my album. This is such a beautiful full-circle moment for me, to be in the privileged position of being able to pay that debt forward. Thank you all so much for your support. I love you.”
Far Out gave Jasmine’s debut album the acclaimed ‘Album of the Week’ title, writing: “Despite the earth-shattering pain that featured in this pivotal personal chapter for Jasmine, 4.t, broadly speaking, You Are The Morning is a positive album, no matter how emotional and profound some moments might be. Thanks to the power of her poetic nouse, vocal delivery, guitar playing, and band’s stylistic dexterity—an all-trans outfit going at it together—this is a body of work that leaves a mark.”
Jasmine.4.t will next play in Brockwell Park at Wide Awake Festival, on May 23rd.
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