Mattiel - Georgia Gothic (CD)

Limited red colored vinyl LP pressing. 2022 release, the third album from Atlanta-based duo Mattiel. Georgia Gothic serves as a re-introduction to the Georgia duo as collaborators, but also as a pair whose tastes, inspirations, and mutual adoration of their shared home state of Georgia intertwine with the music they make. With much of it recorded free of distractions and surrounded by northern Georgia forest, the album hones in on Mattiel and Jonah's collective identity as a duo, working together and challenging one another to develop the sound that feels like home. The result is an album that embodies the otherworldly range and lovable oddity of their state's musical tapestry, from country guitar and crooning Americana to shimmering pop-rock and hints of Atlanta hip-hop's lasting influence, Georgia Gothic is Mattiel's ode to home and how it shaped them.

Red-leather-clad and pitchfork-wielding in a playful nod to Grant Wood's celebrated 1930 painting, Mattiel (Mattiel Brown & Jonah Swilley) proffer songs that ponder the everyday American of the 2020s, with an album tasting more like home than ever before. Georgia Gothic was shaped by time spent on the road touring for the first 2 albums and it's this newfound sense of intimacy that enabled their writing - not as separate musicians - but as one creative entity.