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DEBUT LP, STAY IN TOUCH, OUT APRIL 22, 2022 VIA ARTS & CRAFTS
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"one song in, it's clear that she possesses the kind of effortless musical ability that comes from a life surrounded by great art. ...a Big Thief and Phoebe Bridgers-sounding reflection on youthful abandon and the incomparable presence that accompanies it." - CBC Music on "Headrush"
“For Georgia Harmer, it’s a matter of when, not if. The Toronto songwriter’s serene debut single, ‘Headrush,’ displays a rare skill for wrestling obvious emotion — in this case, naked nostalgia — into sound.” - SPIN, 22 Artists to Watch in 2022
“[Georgia Harmer] continues to be mesmerizing as ‘Austin’ progresses; she burrows into a deeply appealing vibe that reminds me of a slightly rootsier spin on the guitar-powered indie melancholia of early Wye Oak.” - Stereogum
“[‘Austin’] recalls Feist or Land of Talk with extra rootsy guitar twang.” - Brooklyn Vegan
"Harmer gets grittier on “Austin”, and this side of her is awesome. A grizzled guitar opens the track before a steel guitar and rhythms join the fray. This is the sound of a world that is dark and full of mystery and uncertainty." - The Revue on "Austin"
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Toronto-based musician Georgia Harmer announces her debut album, Stay In Touch, out April 22 on Arts & Crafts. Recently, she released the new single “Austin” which also appears on the record and is currently making its way up the CBC Music Top 20 chart. Today, Harmer is sharing the single “All In My Mind” which arrives complete with a video she directed and edited herself.
Harmer calls herself a sentimental person, and Stay In Touch is full of romanticism—a rare quality in an irony-soaked culture. The closest Harmer gets to irony is on “All In My Mind”, a song that looks back on a relationship where she was made to feel crazy. The song is about “being gaslighted,” says Harmer. “I wrote it during a long period of emotional manipulation that made me question my own reality. I had enough sad songs and I just wanted to rock out.”
Of the video, Harmer says “I wanted to lean into the melodrama of the subject. Something bigger than a person needed to be the source of my paranoia. The house and the lights are what ultimately drive me to run away, but it’s the boys in the basement who were messing with my head all along. This is the first song I wrote for my album, and begins a long journey of self-growth through my deep entanglements with the feelings of others.”
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MORE ABOUT STAY IN TOUCH
Across Stay In Touch, Harmer captures ineffable moments with expressive detail: the euphoric memory of a summer’s day so perfect you want to live inside it forever, the dusty heat of a Texas afternoon, a tingle of melancholy on a solo walk home after a party. With a wisdom and poise that belies her youthful age, Harmer has penned an emotionally resonant collection of songs that articulate the ways in which even the most fleeting experiences can forge bonds between strangers, create families out of friends, and one by one form the joys and sorrows that make up a life.
Harmer has been making music since childhood, recording her own songs since age 10. She hails from an artistic family, including her aunt and labelmate Sarah Harmer (Georgia’s parents, both professional musicians, met while playing in Sarah’s band). While still a teenager, she hit the road as a backing vocalist for Alessia Cara, touring and playing late night TV for many months. But when it came time to make her own album, Harmer knew she needed to find her own people. After dropping out of university to pursue music full-time, Harmer began jamming with jazz students at Humber College in Toronto; guitarist Dylan Burchell, drummer Julian Psihogios, and bassist David Maclean, and engineer/producer Jasper Smith assembled to record at ArtHaus in Dufferin Grove. “It was nice because we could just play how we’re used to playing, crammed in a room together, and capture the natural feeling of that.” Smith didn’t tell Harmer that he had never engineered a record before until after it was complete.
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Stay In Touch spans everything from intimate folk and strummy country to sophisticated jazz and pop-kissed rock. Harmer and her band created musical landscapes that live up to the lyrical richness of the songs. The record sparkles with the lightning in a bottle feel of a band in thrall to their musical chemistry, adding more depth to the record’s themes. Stay In Touch is inspired both by the relationships of Harmer’s past and the joy of finding your people in the here and now. It’s an unforgettable statement from a new artist with a heartbreakingly simple message: when you stay in touch with the experiences that have shaped you, you stay in touch with yourself.
LISTEN / SHARE “AUSTIN” HERE
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STAY IN TOUCH TRACKLIST
1. Talamanca
2. Headrush
3. Know You Forever
4. Austin
5. All In My Mind
6. Be Here
7. Homes
8. Top Down
9. Go Soft
10. Strongest Person
11. Just The Feeling