Jacklin\u2019s debut release<\/a> on 4AD \/ Remote Control Records.<\/p>\nThe album title takes its name from a small Collingwood bar Jacklin discovered when she first moved to Melbourne from Sydney in 2017.<\/p>\n
With time on her side to make her fourth album, she decided to record it at home in Melbourne, something she\u2019d never done before.\u00a0She contacted old drinking mate Robert Muinos, owner of Rat Shack Studios, which is located above The Gem, and also recruited a trio of musician friends, Jacob Diamond (guitar), Mimi Gilbert (bass), and Jess Elwood (drums)<\/p>\n
They recorded in close quarters, in converted hotel room accommodation upstairs at the pub, making sure not to record late into the night as it was a residential bar. Jacklin and her band even played two surprise shows there to try out their new tracks.<\/p>\n
Usually quick to record an album, Jacklin tinkered with The Gem<\/em> for almost a year.<\/p>\n\u201cThe Gem <\/em>felt like a metaphor for the whole process, because a lot of it did feel like digging. I felt like I was doing it almost in the dark, just trusting I was going to find something,\u201d she explains.<\/p>\n