MCD Presents: Sarah Julia

Sarah Julia’s music is an exercise in tenderness, bound by sisterhood and defined by a haunting, piercing vulnerability. Their deeply introspective brand of indie folk is forged from a shared childhood: the product of overlapping memories and a communal formative soundtrack that presents itself in the pure vocals that cradle each other in harmony as they delicately address love, heartache and family.

From a young age, they developed a shared love of music – trading album recommendations for the likes of Bon Iver and Ben Howard to expand on the Cat Stevens and Jim Croce their parents raised them on – before they individually began dabbling in making music themselves.

But it wasn’t until a significant change in their family occurred that they began intertwining those efforts, seeking a shared catharsis in songwriting.

What emerged was their debut EP How Do We Go Back To Being Normal? – an audible snapshot of a period of their lives enveloped in grief and change. Interwoven with confessional, diaristic lyricism and elegiac harmonies, their mystical take on folk quickly garnered them a cult following.

How Do We Go Back To Being Normal?’s follow-up Only Making It Worse, released in 2025, builds on these golden foundations. Somehow richer and more devastating than its predecessor, their second EP sees them delve into a slightly poppier soundscape while affirming their entry into a canon of female singer-storytellers spinning gold from the ordinary fabric of everyday life, recalling elements of Phoebe Bridgers, Adrienne Lenker and Joni Mitchell.