The second EP from JUILS came out on 2 October 2026, written in the voice of her inner thoughts during her first year living in London.

Five years is a long time to spend learning to write songs in Nashville, Tennessee, and JUILS spent them there before moving to London. What I Meant to Say, her second EP, came out on 2 October 2026 and is the first record made from the other side of that move. It runs to four songs about love, about cultural differences and about the sentences she rehearsed and never quite spoke. Here are five reasons it is worth your time.

1. It was written in the voice of her inner thoughts

Most break up songs are addressed to someone. JUILS chose to write this EP from the perspective of her own inner thoughts, which changes where the listener stands. You are not the person being sung at; you are overhearing the draft, the line rehearsed in the head before a conversation, or the one that never makes it out. The songs ask whether a feeling should be voiced at all, and I find that a more interesting question than how to voice it.

2. Boston, then Nashville, then London

She was raised in Boston, spent five years in Nashville studying songwriting, and then moved to London. That last move is the one this record is about. What I Meant to Say reflects on her first year living in the city, and on how a new country changed the way she thinks about communication, intimacy and the ways people relate to each other. Plenty of songwriters write about leaving. Fewer write about the uncertain first year after arriving, when you are still learning how a place talks.

3. The love songs are about culture too

Cultural difference is usually the backdrop in a relationship song. Here it is the subject. The EP looks at the moments when those differences make you question what you feel, how you should express it and whether you should say it at all. That is a narrower problem than heartbreak, and I think a better one to write about: the worry is less about whether someone loves you and more about whether you have read them right.

4. Four titles, and the order they come in

The tracklist runs “Fake It”, “Lesson”, “Kinda Wanna”, “To Each Their Own”. Taken as words alone, it moves from pretending, past being taught something, to half admitting a want, and ends on a phrase people use to stop an argument without winning it. I would not lean too hard on titles, but closing a record about unsaid things on “To Each Their Own” feels deliberate. The EP makes no attempt to tidy its experiences into an answer, and that last title agrees to differ.

5. It answers her debut

Her debut EP, JUILS, came out in December and grew from the Nashville years: growing up, falling in love and working out the many forms love can take. The new record carries that subject into a new city, swapping the question of what love looks like for the harder business of talking inside it. Musically it is indie pop, melodic writing set against experimental production. Played back to back, the two EPs make a stronger case for her than either does alone, so I would start with the debut.

What I Meant to Say is out now on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/4Fum8utIW3yOknz8gtpxWf