Georgia Maq – God’s Favourite
Camp Cope’s Georgia Maq releases her new EP God’s Favourite via 1000 Rats.
God’s Favourite includes the singles “Mercy and Grace”, “The LA River” , “Slightly Below The Middle”, “Citronella”, and “Pay Per View.”
Georgia Maq became something of a local hero as the leader of revered punk trio Camp Cope, calling out music industry sexism over fearsome indie rock salvos while garnering widespread international acclaim. In late 2019, Maq surprised everyone by releasing her solo debut, Pleaser, a refreshingly bright and catchy missive of electro-pop tunes about heartbreak and love. A suite of singles in ‘Someone Stranger’ with Alice Ivy, ‘Joe Rogan’, ‘tropical lush ice’ and live EP recorded at the Sydney Opera House showcase the breadth of her taste and range.
Ever since, Georgia has chased a more genuine form of pop music in her solo career, a vision hat retains all of the glamour and universality but feels unburdened from capitalist underpinnings. Mining the evergreen themes of romantic, sexual and self-love, Georgia Maq’s solo venture was not so much a transformation as it was a revelation. Opening up on her vulnerabilities and heartbreaks, her continued evolution is far beyond the Greek girl from Naarm that first set fire to the rain.
Reflecting on the upcoming EP, Georgia shares “Every release gets me closer to self actualisation, and God’s Favourite is the next big step for me. Every time I release music, I look back at my catalogue and feel an urgent sense of shame and embarrassment – I feel different about this one though, Daniel Fox was a huge part of this, he’s my collaborator and one of my best friends and we bring such different things into the songs and he’s really helped me find myself through the music.”
A product of her surroundings and the leap of faith that comes with starting over – whatever shape that takes – on God’s Favourite, Georgia Maq writes to the humility, stasis and freedom that comes with being a sudden “unknown” in an all new city. Imbuing footnotes of Americana and folk from her relocation to Los Angeles, giving way to softer, uncharted territories to her sound.
“I want to acknowledge that I stopped singing in an Australian accent,” Georgia continues. “Honestly, it was never really natural for me in the first place, I started singing when I was a kid in an American accent because I was brought up on country and bluegrass music (dad) and Cold Chisel (mum) and I feel like I’ve come back to that. I think maybe this EP is me connecting to my mum also, it was unintentional but I think the songs are letters I’m sending to her back home.”
God’s Favourite is set to assert the singer and guitarist’s place in Australia’s prized canon of songwriters and beyond. While still boasting Georgia Maq’s signature lampooning tone alongside earnest self-reflection between Orthodoxy and the “free world”; wholly reflective of her unrelenting defiance and fearlessness to claim space at every opportunity, just as the skill and talent seeps inherited through her.
Upcoming Tour Dates:
October 8 @ Soda Bar – San Diego, CA
October 15 @ Zebulon – Los Angeles, CA
October 17 @ 4 Star Theater – San Francisco, CA
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