Jasmine.4.t – You Are the Morning

Singer-songwriter and trans woman jasmine.4.t today releases her highly anticipated debut album You Are The Morning via Saddest Factory Records.

Based in Manchester, Jasmine recently became the first UK signee to Phoebe Bridgers’ label and today is sharing new music video for the single “Guy Fawkes Tesco Dissociation” which follows previous singles, the album title-track “You Are The Morning”, “Elephant” and “Skin on Skin”.

On “Guy Fawkes Tesco Dissociation” Jasmine said “A few years ago, I was sleeping on my best friend Han’s living room floor in Manchester for a few nights. I had come out as trans to my closest people back home in Bristol, my life had fallen apart, my marriage had ended terribly, and I had nowhere to stay. I was struggling with extreme PTSD symptoms and making plans to kill myself. I remember being in Han’s bathtub, crying in the dark and her making me promise not to go through with it. The hallucinations were terrifying. I kept seeing my dead body face-down in a pool of blood on the painted yellow kitchen floor of my home in Bristol. I had a persistent delusion that I had died there and was living some kind of hellish afterlife. Sometimes I would look down and see my own body as a rotting corpse or skeleton. I remember seeing myself and my beloved late uncle (who left me his guitar after he died by suicide) both in miniature, screaming and trapped inside my own ribcage.

Guy Fawkes night was the worst. The stress of the explosions had left my body a wreck, and I thought I was dying of fright. Han took me for a walk so I could see the fireworks — if I could see them maybe the sounds wouldn’t be so terrifying. When we were outside the supermarket someone let off some fireworks on the pavement. They failed to launch and exploded next to us in the road. I blacked out at that point and came to, back at Han’s, when I tripped over the doormat. Apparently we had gone into the supermarket and bought some essentials. I had no memory of it, though when I pushed myself I had some images of fluorescent lights and Han comforting me.

Following this, I started a type of therapy called Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR). Over a period of several months it reduced my symptoms hugely. But, as with most therapy processes, things got worse before they got better. During that time, I experienced some violent transphobic attacks which set me back as well. Through all of this, I was moving from spare room to spare room, writing and demoing songs to help me process what I was going through.

I wrote Guy Fawkes Tesco Dissociation about the experience at the supermarket, and my divorce that was in progress. The second verse imagines a me in a brighter future, looking back at myself. I demoed it with two guitar tracks and two vocal tracks on a four-track cassette recorder. I panned the tracks so that one guitar and vocal was on the left and one guitar and vocal was on the right. The vocal tracks sang alternate lines. This gave the impression of my voice going back and forth, left and right, mirroring the bilateral stimulation techniques of EMDR therapy.

It feels so much to be writing this now, in the next chapter I imagined in the second verse. I cried writing this when I remembered the line ‘find connection next to true self, something larger than my life’, because I am in the brighter future that I could never have foreseen from where I was when I wrote it. I want this story to bring hope to anyone going through what I went through.”

See jasmine.4.t live:

1/17/25 – Crash Records, Leeds UK

1/18/25 – Banquet Records, Kingston upon Thames UK

1/19/25 – Rough Trade Denmark Street, London UK

2/15/25 – Troxy, London UK*

3/10/25 – 3/16/25 – SXSW, Austin TX

4/16/25 – The Met, Philadelphia, PA^

4/18/25 – The Anthem, Washington, DC^

4/21/25 – MGM Music Hall at Fenway – Boston, MA^

4/23/25 – Radio City Music Hall, New York City, NY^

4/25/25 – Massey Hall, Toronto, CA^

4/29/25 – The Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN^

5/1/25 – The Chicago Theatre, Chicago, IL^

5/5/25 – The Palace Theatre, St Paul, MN^

5/7/25 – The Midland Theatre, Kansas City, MO^

5/9/25 – Winspear Opera House, Dallas, TX^

5/10/25 – Moody Amphitheatre, Austin, TX^

5/12/25 – Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Morrison, CO^

5/14/25 – The Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, CA^ 

5/21/25 – King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut, Glasgow, UK

5/23/25 – Wide Awake Festival, London, UK

5/24/25 – Dot to Dot Festival, Bristol, UK

5/25/25 – Dot to Dot Festival, Nottingham, UK

5/27/25 – The Lexington, London, UK

5/28/25 – Green Door Store, Brighton, UK 

5/29/25 – Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, UK

5/31/25 – Deaf Institute, Manchester, UK

6/2/25 – Whelan’s, Dublin, IE

6/14/25 – Best Kept Secret, Hilvarenbeek, NE

7/26/25 – Truck Festival, Oxfordshire, UK

*supporting Los Campesinos!

^supporting Lucy Dacus

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