Nottingham’s Georgie, last year released the impromptu album ‘At Home’. Due to incredible demand, Soul Kitchen Records are now giving it a physical release today (8th January).
You can purchase the album here.
Turn a pop-based radio station on the past 5 years and inevitably, you’ll find someone who sounds like Georgie. That is surface only. Scratch deeper at Georgie and, elements of roots, folk, and blues infiltrate her pop styles. It is though, her ability to lyrically connect that truly marks her out as a great talent.
Like any good songwriter, she has tapped into the mood of the times. Unlike many socially observant writers, she has an innate ability to frame it accessibly.
As lockdown begins again, the current single ‘Simple Things’ will leave most reflecting and teary-eyed. However, such are the pop hooks and elegant key changes that, you’ll go back for the emotional punishment time and time again.
For a vocal so suited to reeling in the masses, the supreme pop hooks stop there. Nevertheless, this album delivers upon the mood of a nation with aplomb, especially when the songs are stripped back.
‘Me and You Only’ comes with wisdom beyond her years as she breaks down a relationship dynamic. The slow build emerges from lockdown with a renewed sense of what is important and thus, a glowing warmth. ‘Company’ nestles her vocals on the pop spectrum between the witching hour ache of Billie Eilish and the pop bombast of Rihanna. The soulful slice of blues highlights her slight gravel beautifully and again, allows the notion of, the best things in life are free to come front and centre.
There are moments though where the album becomes derivative of the mainstream. ‘Chasing Kites’ moves away from The XX and Eilish’s innovation and towards repetitive generic music that has besieged too many of our lives.
To write an album during the first lockdown, about said time and ailing relationships is a remarkable feat of the human spirit. When so many just struggled to exist, Georgie flourished. Her confessional style has a hint of Phil Collins’ pop classic ‘But Seriously…’ to it. At that point, Collins was a 15-year veteran, Georgia is barely a fledgling. A bright future lies ahead.