★★★★☆
If you could capture that feeling before a storm, when the clouds loom and the air is alive with static, the result might be similar to Georgi Kay’s new EPOrigins.
Dark, hazy and charged, this second EP fromthe ARIA-winning indie musician sees her venture confidently into an edgy electro terrain.
Opener ‘Love Is Cold’ crawls under the skin with its club pulse, niggling electronic melodies and tangled strings and synths. ‘God Of A Girl’ layers on a thick, sultry groove à la Chet Faker, while the single ‘More Than This’ toys with catchy vocal warping. The reverb-heavy harmonies of ‘Give Me Love’ offer a lush, pillowy close to the five tracks.
Kay’s vocals are alluring. She’s a Lorde/Sarah Blasko hybrid; her words are filled with breath, emotion and rounded vowels. She sings of a topsy-turvy, gothic-stained world where love is cold, darkness is a comfort (“I want to feel the night wrap around me,”) and the all-powerful is but a reflection (“In the mirror / She’s the god of a girl”).
You’ll pop on Origins for a taste but the pulsating melodies and deliciously dark undertow will see you through to the end. You’ll be left hitting replay, too.
Georgi Kay‘sOriginsis out now through Monoki/Parlophone.
