#be ache

As someone who tends to be spellbound by edgy, ground breaking talent, particular ones that delve into the darker side of things, I can’t help but be incredibly, ridiculously excited by Londoner Georgia Barnes. I’d previously encountered her song Move Systems, but her latest envelope pushing, noisy electronic treat Be Ache is even more of an eye widening, hair raising experience (in a good way). The grimy, industrial tune drones and bursts with fantastic, lurchy movement, like a gripping fusion of PC Music, Grimes, Sleigh Bells, TR/ST, FKA Twigs, and everything in between. Georgia will be releasing a debut album come August 7th on Domino Records, and I promptly pre-ordered the record earlier today upon listening to trippy, stormy Be Ache. Catch the video for Georgia’s Move Systems below, which is more of a gritty M.I.A.-ish clattering, spunky explosion of glorious noise. I can’t wait for Georgia’s debut album.

GEoRGia - Come In

Track of the day // GEoRGiA - Be Ache

Kwes and Kate Tempest’s touring percussionist puts those dizzying drum patterns to good use on debut solo track ‘Be Ache’. Frenetic, abrasive electronic pop, in a similar vein to Crystal Castles and The Knife.

"Be Ache" by Georgia

MG:

It's only fair that after not falling in love with JUCE, I admit, I have fallen in love with JUCE-member Georgia's art-pop collage. Both "Be Ache" and "(H)ours" are the work of relative beginners, catchy but transparent in their movements. "Be Ache" layers bits of sound until a sticky melody and tight groove are established, both moody and maroon, the very last bit of fading light in the twilit sky. In that liminal space, Georgia mixes vocal pulses with trip hop synthesizers. "You're making me/ The enemy," she sings, crystallizing the song's dark energy.

DV:

There's promise for Georgia's future in "Be Ache," even as the track fails to fully deliver. There's an intriguing premise in the mix of samples, beats and vocal distortion on display here, a stab at the sort of forward-thinking pop that creates and establishes the potential futures of the genre. But there's just not enough song to "Be Ache" to justify the strangeness, and so the track sounds like an overly-long interlude, not the experimental pop that it seemingly aims to be. The hook is too flat to propel the song, the vocal filter saps energy from the lyric rather than complementing it, and the production seems like chaos for chaos's sake without anything to anchor it.