Back in 2016, little-known lo-fi singer-songwriter Jasmine Cruickshank was picked by US artist Lucy Dacus to open her European tour; in the same year, Dacus met her future Boygenius bandmate Julien Baker. Almost a decade later, things came full circle when Dacus turned her other Boygenius pal, Phoebe Bridgers, on to the music of the Manchester-based artist now known as jasmine.4.t, who promptly became the first UK signing to Bridgers’s label Saddest Factory (also home to Muna and Claud). All three members of Boygenius co-produced Cruickshank’s forthcoming debut album, You Are the Morning.
The record sprang out of a challenging period for Cruickshank. “My first EP [2019’s Worn Through] came out pre-transition, and then I got really sick during Covid and transitioned while having long Covid,” she told Rolling Stone. “I left an abusive marriage and was homeless for a period after I wasn’t accepted by my family.”
