Georgia Maq’s unflinching metamorphosis has landed today with her latest EP God’s Favourite out now. LISTEN HERE.

A product of her surroundings and the leap of faith that comes with starting over – whatever shape that takes – on God’s Favourite, Georgia Maq writes to the humility, stasis and freedom that comes with being a sudden “unknown” in an all new city. Imbuing footnotes of Americana and folk from her relocation to Los Angeles, giving way to softer, uncharted territories to her sound. The dichotomy of Georgia Maqthe artist and the person lies in her ability with timing – when to keep it cute, be real, crack a joke and when to absolutely not be reckoned with. Above all she knows when to reject the status quo. There’s a playful anarchy to her drive, and a wit that never betrays her approach. Least of all, any speculation when it comes to the gravity she approaches her creative vision with.

Expanding on the new world debuted on ‘Pay Per View‘, the winding storytelling of ‘Slightly Below The Middle’, God’s Favourite comes with new tracks ‘Citronella’, the emotional hangover counterpart to ‘Pay Per View’s morning after; a fictional recount of a day spent in her new hometown that ends in demise on ‘LA River’ and ‘Mercy & Grace’, the impetus of Georgia’s creative collaboration with co-producer Daniel Fox (Ryan Beatty, Ian Sweet). Written upon first meeting in the wake of Camp Cope’s end, casting her eyes back to the life she’d come to know and the new iteration ahead of her.

Of God’s Favourite, Maq shares, “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. 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, 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. I think maybe this EP is me connecting to my mum also, it was unintentional but I think the songs are letters I’m sending to her back home.”

It’s a refreshingly current take on the trad confines of the genre she’s now cultivated a home in. References like being “too cute to cancel” on ‘Citronella’, or all night gaming on Windows 95 in ‘LA River’. God’s Favourite is a poke here against the rules and elsewhere a tug that brings down the mask. Boasting her most up-front self-reflection against Orthodoxy and the “free world”, and still able to play with the melodrama though cast aside the weight of the voice and God’s Favourite highlights Georgia Maqthe individual. Her base values and desires: to be cared for, accepted, respected and celebrated. She embraces her true self, rejects conformity and lives authentically. Nobody in Oz or beyond is ever gonna bring her down.