If The Julies’ last-and first ever-full-length announced a comeback, it’s 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, on purpose. It’s 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.””And the sonic canvases Alex (Yost) and Patrick (Zbyszewski) were creating became an immersive counterpoint to all that shock and awe,” he adds. That said, Cherisher is far from disengaged. Between it’s many moments of introspective nostalgia are some declara