The Julies shimmering new album Cherisher
If The Julies' last full-length announced a comeback, its follow-up takes the opportunity to look back. With their new album Cherisher, The Julies lean fully into reflection, memory, and meaning, delivering a deeply personal collection about holding on, about purpose. Its title functions as a tiny manifesto: an embrace of core truths and long-held passions, and of personal nostalgia without irony or apology.
"I felt in constant threat of succumbing to the whirlpool of the socio-political intensities of the times," says singer Chris Newkirk. "To avoid being swallowed whole, I grabbed hold of the DNA-shaped truths of personal identity that took root and codified themselves in my youth."
Recorded and produced by the band themselves, Cherisher moves fluidly between intimacy and release, drawing from shimmering post-punk urgency and '90s shoegaze-influenced walls of sound. Mixed and mastered in London by James Aparicio (Depeche Mode, Spiritualized, Mogwai), the album treats memory as momentum—not about reliving the past, but conversing with it.
Also announcing the limited vinyl release of The Julies dreamy debut January
More than 30 years after its original release, The Julies' earliest statement arrives on vinyl for the first time, featuring beautiful new artwork from design partner Sarah Fuchsia. Known to their earliest fans as "the blue tape," January is the 1994 six-song cassette that set everything else in motion—noisy, dreamy, and unpolished in all the right ways. This is the document of a band before they knew what they were becoming. Pre-order it now, or get a bundle of Cherisher and January at a special low price!