Meg Washington - GEM (2025) [Hi-Res]

GEM is the fifth studio album from Meg Washington, out 8 August 2025. Typical of Meg's genre-defying work and her ever-expanding palette, 'GEM’ is a country-tinged record of psychedelic folk songs, and marks a turning point for the platinum-selling artist

Meg on GEM: “GEM is a concept album, set on a treasure island. It’s been a creative oasis, a beautiful and isolated dreamscape crafted with my friend and collaborator, Ben Edgar. These songs formed as notes that I wrote to myself, a journal I kept while considering the question of music in these times. The answer, when it came, was simple. I sing because it’s in my nature. In every sense, this record is about nature. Human nature, animal nature, and my own nature as an artist, parent and person. We took a simple approach to production. We used very few machines.”

Released independently through her own label, Batflower Records, in partnership with ORiGiN Recordings, the record thrums with guitar-spangled dreamscapes and lyrical themes of self-determination, art, and the natural world. GEM is music made against the darkness, an organic, uncluttered, future-facing album, which gleams with clarity.