In her first solo EP, former Camp Cope frontperson Georgia Maq ditches energetic electronics for guitars and a healthy dose of Americana-style ballads about life in the city of angels. Part metamorphosis, part recounting of a leap of faith, it’s all the sort of easy listening that goes down like a good sunset.
It’s the result of Maq’s creative collaboration with co-producer Daniel Fox (Ryan Beatty, Ian Sweet). Written upon their first meeting in the wake of Camp Cope’s end, it casts her eyes back to the life she’d come to know and the new iteration ahead of her.
On the album, Maq says, “I think being a musician right now feels like we’re in the string quartet as the Titanic goes down, I feel like none of this matters or has any point to it but I hope that the songs find their way into someone’s ears when they need them; I think I make music for people who cry listening to ‘Defying Gravity’ from the Wicked soundtrack.”
But the move to LA has had a quantifiable impact on the music, one that just feels right to Maq, who adds, “I want to acknowledge that I stopped singing in an Australian accent — 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.
“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,” Maq continues. “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.”
Georgia Maq’s God’s Favourite EP is out now on all platforms. You can listen to it here.
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