Georgia Maq today shares a second taste of her upcoming EP God’s Favourite (out Sep 4) with new single ‘Slightly Below The Middle’. LISTEN HERE + WATCH HERE.

“This song is basically a conversation between me and whoever the boss of the Devil and God is,” Georgia explains. Co-produced by Maq alongside Daniel Fox (Ryan Beatty, Ian Sweet), with the ever present influence of formative music memories parents instil on their children. She continues, “I grew up listening to my dad play the fiddle part of The Devil Went Down To Georgia and I always loved it because it says my name and I love hearing my name in a song.”

Where the Charlie Daniels original tells the vivid tale of the Devil’s failed ploy to capture a young man’s soul through a fiddle-play content, Maq’s reconfiguration expands that worldview: “The devil plays a fiddle / On a lawn chair in the yard / I asked him why he’s over / He said “well, since your father’s been gone / I went down to Georgia / Now I know it won’t be long / Until you’re singing / I know, I listen.”

‘Slightly Below The Middle’ reckons with some of her most complex storytelling, expanding the horizons of the recent drop ‘Pay Per View‘ that set the tone for Georgia Maq’s all new world. Battling choice, perception and atonement against prescriptions of ‘pure’ and ‘deviant’ desire. She lays to rest any doubt of her authenticity and biggest creative drive – integrity, however she sees fit. Backed by hazy soundscape that bellows between emotive and haunting, tactile acoustic strumming vamps into an affecting storm.

Reflecting on the upcoming EP, Georgia shares “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.”

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.

“I want to acknowledge that I stopped singing in an Australian accent,” Georgia continues. “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. 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.”

God’s Favourite is set to assert the singer and guitarist’s place in Australia’s prized canon of songwriters and beyond. While still boasting Georgia Maq’s signature lampooning tone alongside earnest self-reflection between Orthodoxy and the “free world”; wholly reflective of her unrelenting defiance and fearlessness to claim space at every opportunity, just as the skill and talent seeps inherited through her.