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Mattiel - Georgia Gothic (Vinyl) Mattiel, the Atlanta based group made up of Mattiel Brown and Jonah Swilley, release their third album, ‘Georgia Gothic’, on Heavenly Recordings. ‘Georgia Gothic’, a magic third in Mattiel’s run of full-length albums, was shaped in the quiet seclusion of a woodland cabin in the north of the Atlanta duo’s mother-state; “Some faraway place that just Jonah and I could go where there would be no distractions, nothing else going on, and we could turn everything off and only focus on writing songs,” reflects Brown. Where 2017’s self-titled debut and its 2019 follow-up Satis Factory were written with what Swilley refers to as a “hands-off” approach - he arranging the music and Brown the lyrics and vocals, the two working largely separately - the making of ‘Georgia Gothic’ was, for the first time, a truly collaborative undertaking, the duo writing the record as one creative entity within a private studio with Swilley in the producer’s seat, before handing off to Grammy-award winning John Congleton for mixing. Not only does the affinity between its creators translate into an electric synergy between ‘Georgia Gothic’s words and music - the brine-shock of Brown’s taut lyricism cut against the bourbon-smoothness of Swilley’s instrumentation - but here too are the palpable spoils of experimentation, each party trustful enough of the other to trial and error their practices into new geometries. Swilley puts this wide palate, in part, down to the place they call home. “I definitely feel like being from Georgia allows us to have a certain way of approaching music.” And it is precisely the forging of Mattiel’s distinct musical identity that ‘Georgia Gothic’ signals; its members guiding each other ever-homewards not just in a geographical or sonic sense, but spiritually, too. TRACKLISTING 1. 2. Jeff Goldblum 3. On The Run 4. Lighthouse 5. Wheels Fall Off 6. Subterranean Shut In Blues 7. Blood In The Yolk 8. Cultural Criminal 9. You Can Have It All 10. Other Plans 11. Boomerang 12. How It Ends
