CLAIRE GEORGE Shares New Song & Video via The FADER

CLAIRE GEORGE SHARES NEW SONG “NORTHERN LIGHTS” & MUSIC VIDEO Listen & Watch Now via THE FADER   Debut Album The Land Beyond The Light out May 21st on Cascine

“Northern Lights” video still    Early praise for Claire George:    “[‘Orbits’] seems to send her voice hurtling through space, but for all its dreamy wonder and celestial wordplay, it stays tethered to this world through kind devotion.” - NPR Music   "'Pink Elephants' exists in lineage with the likes of Grimes, Austra, and Purity Ring. Over percolating percussion and ominous synth tones that eventually expand into icy dance-pop beat, George laments a friend lost to addiction" - Stereogum   "George’s electronic magic on “Pink Elephants” is distractingly beautiful, its neon-flavored indie pop masking the song’s heart-wrenching origins." - Paste Magazine   “Claire George makes quite the auspicious introduction with the...wistfully bittersweet [‘Orbits’]” - Gorilla vs. Bear   “Cascine continues to have a superb ear for indie pop gems and Claire George might be the most promising signee yet...heavenly...an immersive soundscape held together by haunting vocals, swelling production, and healing words” - Highsnobiety   "The synth pop artist asks a painful question in this dreamy, languid track from her debut EP" - Resident Advisor Los Angeles-based artist Claire George will release her long-awaited debut album The Land Beyond The Light via Cascine on May 21st, and today she shares the final single off of the forthcoming record. Following “Pink Elephants” and “I Promise” is the gorgeous and heartbreaking "Northern Lights." "I wrote ‘Northern Lights’ about someone I loved and lost to opioid addiction. I wanted to eternalize the memories we shared before they became distant or distorted, as they do when you retell or revisit them. After they passed, they appeared regularly in my dreams. Waking up I would relive the loss and beg for an alternate reality,” Claire explains. “The video came from one dream I had in which I was called up the floors of a house to an attic filled with light. The attic is where we store our memories, old photographs and cards we made for our mothers. To me this felt like a reminder to appreciate the memories, even as my grief is indelibly tied to them. In the video I wanted to give myself the chance to do what I cannot do in life: free myself of the grief. Wring it out and be left only with the light.” Listen to the song and watch the video now via The FADER.

On Monday, May 17th, Claire George will perform an acoustic set on Junior High’s Vans Channel 66 show at approximately 2:30 pm PT / 5:30 pm ET. The performance will air on Vans’ Channel 66, a digital livestream network broadcasting weekdays from New York City, Chicago, Mexico City, and Los Angeles to audiences around the world. While Claire George’s stunning self-produced and self-written debut EP Bodies of Water was notable for its wide-eyed celestial synth-pop, The Land Beyond the Light delves deeper into George’s swath of dance and pop influences. The album was initially inspired by a 2019 heartbreak, but the tone and tenor of the writing process changed when George suddenly lost her friend, an ex-boyfriend, to substance abuse. The loss of this significant person in her life left George to reckon with questions of addiction and grief, while exploring new sonic vocabularies in which to house them. The result is an achingly human document of life; an album in turns ecstatic and elegiac.  Pre-order The Land Beyond The Light, out May 21st on Cascine, HERE.

The Land Beyond The Light Tracklist:   1. You Don’t Feel the Same  2. I Promise 3. Pink Elephants 4. Medellín 5. Northern Lights 6. Nosebleed Seats  7. Islands 8. Bag of Peaches 9. Particles in Motion

photo credit: Kkanvas  More on Claire George and The Land Beyond The Light: How do we cope with the gulf between us and those we’ve lost? On The Land Beyond The Light, the debut full-length album by Claire George, the Los-Angeles artist aims to answer that question. The Land Beyond The Light was initially conceived as a break-up record, largely inspired by a tough split Claire was going through in late 2019. She wrote the album opener “You Don’t Feel The Same” in the immediate aftermath, charting a course for a record channeling her feelings about the dissolution of relationships. “When that relationship fell apart, I felt really angry,” Claire says. “As I set out to write this album, I envisioned it being much harsher, being fresh off of the break-up.”   The writing process shifted, however, in the wake of another personal tragedy: the death of one of Claire’s close friends, an ex-boyfriend, as a result of substance abuse. “Everything changed when he passed away,” she says. When Claire returned to the songs she had written for the album, they took on a new meaning filtered through her grief. “So many of the songs, whether they were about him when I first wrote them or not, are about him now. And this record is for him.”  One of the tragedies of addiction is that it can make us feel lost to those who are suffering, even before they’re gone. “Most of these songs express the desperation of wanting to help someone you love, but who you cannot possibly save from themselves,” Claire explains. “There is this thread of desperately wanting someone to break free from their afflictions, and the heartbreak associated with knowing you cannot change someone.”  Claire’s writing process coincided with her grieving process, and the spirit of her late friend was stamped indelibly onto the album: memories of their relationship, imagined what-if scenarios, her competing feelings of gratitude and grief. The result is a stunning and multi-layered collection of songs that marvels at life and the beauty of the world around us, even in its most tragic moments.  *** Follow Claire George: WEBSITE | BANDCAMP | TWITTER | INSTAGRAM | FACEBOOK