05 September 2024 - 0 Comments

Georgia Gets By shares Not This Time, the striking final single from her new Split Lip EP, out this Friday September 6 on Luminelle Recordings.

The song comes complete with a live performance video, directed by Scott Sweitzer, with John Velasquez playing bass and Ray Suen the violin.

"Not This Time is about returning to an ex and scraping the bottom of the barrel of intimacy,” Georgia Nott explains. “Seeking the familiar comfort of their arms around you. Trying to go back to your old home and coming to terms with the fact that you don’t belong there anymore."

Written fairly quickly, Split Lip was born out of the dissolution of Georgia’s first queer relationship. Every song is deeply personal, so much so that Nott went back and forth on whether to release them, before realizing that being able to express that vulnerability was the most important thing.

“When people don’t hold back in their art it’s really beautiful to me,” Nott explains. Although Split Lip is a metaphor for many kinds of separations, throughout any fervent intensity, there’s also a sense of playful abandon that is never far behind. Mainly working with long-term friends and collaborators on the EP, it’s easy to sense the love and care that comes with creating alongside a carefully considered inner circle. “It’s impossible to make the kind of art that I make on my own,” she says, and it’s this commitment to forging the deepest connections possible that makes Nott’s songs feel high stakes.

The EPs singles Madeline, Some Kind of Angel (co-written by Grammy award nominated producer Billboard known for work with Ariana Grande, Dua Lipa and Blackpink) and title track Split Lip which received praise from outlets like Flaunt, Stereogum, Gorilla vs Bear, Brooklyn Vegan and Paste, who said “her singing is so powerful you can feel it in your kneecaps.”

WATCH THE NOT THIS TIME VISUALIZER

Split Lip, the new EP by Georgia Gets By (Georgia Nott), eloquently traverses the unsettling terrain that comes with navigating both subtle and pronounced change. After a decade of fronting well-known electronic pop project Broods, Split Lip comes after Nott’s solo debut Fish Bird Baby Boy, which was the songwriter’s foray into more stripped back, guitar-focused music that oscillates between straightforward indie leanings and moodier, textual acoustics. Outlets like Vogue, Line of Best Fit, Paste, Gorilla vs Bear and DIY Magazine have praised her “strikingly intimate, delicate yet powerful” music, and while Fish Bird Baby Boy felt like a gradual unveiling, the new EP encapsulates what it’s like to love bigger than ever before. Playing shows in six cities across three different countries in early 2024, her past success touring with Broods has lent her a clear confidence on stage as Georgia Gets By.

Photo Credit: Kate Biel
Cover Art: Silken Weinberg

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