jasmine.4.t has shared the title track from her forthcoming album, You Are the Morning, set to be released on January 17 via Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory Records. The deeply moving track centers around finger-picked acoustic guitar melodies and gorgeous string swells, atop which jasmine sings of longing. “You are the morning, you make the grass grow / You are the hawthorn tangled in dog-rose,” she sings.
“This song is about the healing found in queer friendship,” jasmine shared. “It is about queer people’s resilience in the face of violence. It is about our potential to bring about change within ourselves, those around us, and the world at large. I think trans people in particular have an incredible ability to change this world. Of course, we are challenging norms of gender/sex. Beyond that, this year we have seen trans people dismantling violent machines of all forms to help manifest a bright future. This is what ‘you are the morning’ has come to mean—it is an awakening to our power, and a call to action.”
Check out the video for “You are the Morning” below, and pre-order the album of the same name here.
