George FitzGerald follows news of his brand-new spellbinding EP, Not As I, by releasing his tantalisingly ascendant new track, 'Venera'.
Just like ‘Mother’, ‘Venera’ was recorded at George’s London studio at the end of 2022 and is an instant George FitzGerald classic. “Venera brings together loads of different facets of my sound,” George explains. “It’s a collage of lots of modular synth jams, mangled vocals and electronic drums, all combined with percussion, horns and piano from my live band. I was thinking a lot about my earliest 12” releases and trying to capture some of that immediacy and mix with it what I’ve learned along the way.”
‘Mother’, ‘Venera’ and the rest of the Not As I EP showcase George’s continued evolution as a producer and his ability to reframe his work through new collaborations. “I’d been thinking a lot about my first record ‘Fading Love’ and I wanted to revisit the calmer and more intimate part of my sound,” George explains. “Music that occupies a liminal space between club and home listening. To me, ‘Stellar Drifting’ fizzed with nervous energy and maximalist sound design. In my head, this is the afterglow from that.”
Listen to ‘Venera’ by George FitzGerald on the Watford FC Fan Playlist on Spotify.
George FitzGerald is a singular voice in electronic music, uniting underground dancefloor progressivism with pop’s cutting edges for over a decade. Following the release of 2015’s debut album Fading Love and 2018’s breakthrough album All That Must Be, last year’s Stellar Drifting, featured tracks with Panda Bear, London Grammar and SOAK, and artwork created by the celebrated designer David Rudnick. The campaign concluded with a sold-out UK and European tour in October.
After many years in Berlin releasing tracks on labels including Aus and Hotflush Recordings, FitzGerald signed to Domino’s imprint label Double Six in 2013 and made the transition from club producer to album artist, establishing a celebrated live show, and working with icons such as Bonobo and Everything But the Girl’s Tracey Thorn. As well as a collaboration album entitled OTHERLiiNE with UK artist Lil Silva, FitzGerald helped produce London Grammar‘s 2021 number one album, hosted his very own BBC Radio 1 residency and boasts a remix roster with the likes of Foals, Moby and Jon Hopkins.
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