GG FEARN – EP REVIEW


GG Fearn – Black Mirror EP 
GG Fearn - Black Mirror EP

Release Date: Out Now

Last year, Georgia Fearn came to my attention and blew my mind with her debut album ‘Perfect on Paper’ and now she has rebranded herself as GG Fearn and come back with new EP ‘Black Mirror’ – prepare your minds. This four-track collection opens up with ‘Deal with the Devil’ which dances in with a reggae inspired keyboard melody and Fearn’s flighty, entrancing voice that demands and grabs your attention as she sings “living without a soul ain’t so bad, I never really had one anyway”. Title track ‘Black Mirror’ is up next and it has a beautiful mix of 80s pop fun, 90s melodies and an entirely fresh sound as Fearn sings, raps and generally does pop better than any number of SyCo payrolled writers could achieve in a month of Sundays.

There’s a music box opening to ‘Teen Queen’ that is soon blown out of the box by a Bond-esque dramaticism that hints at GG Fearn’s musical scope and imagination with rippling piano and strings soon turning in to America-ready pop on a grand scale. Like, seriously grand. The EP closes out with ‘Famous Last Words’ and it is as fiercely honest and strikingly original as the rest of the EP with semi-industrial beats, sparse melodies and the heavily effected vocals that we should all be in love with by now. The only artist I’ve come across that is anywhere GG Fearn’s ballpark is Grace Inspace and that is high praise coming from a Grace Inspace fan like me. Stunning stuff.