Only in darkness I see clear
The shadows remind me your still here
And you’ll only love me if I kneel
So let me get down show me how to feel
Georgi, the dark synth‑pop doyenne whose name reverberates through the digital underground, steps back into the glare with Shadows, out now via Bitch House Records. The track glints with serrated synths and iron‑lung percussion, sealing her crown as “The Girl in Synth,” a phantom voice marrying billboard bravado to coffin‑club cool.
Within the lyrics, suspicion slow‑dances with self‑doubt. Memories of a domineering lover lurk at the edge of every line, demanding knees on cold concrete, while fleeting optimism tussles with the perils of addiction and questionable life choices. Georgi distills this chaos into a blissful chorus, delivering an anthemic gothic pop credo sharpened for club floors. Admirers of Depeche Mode’s sleek despair, Crystal Castles’ circuit‑board turbulence, or the contemporary noir pop of Santigold and Anika will feel at home.
“Shadows is a song I wrote about heartbreak, youth, and not understanding the world,” Georgi explains. “There’s a lot of emotion and rawness in it. I see it as a bridge — musically and emotionally — from where I’ve been to where I’m going.”
The accompanying video, first chapter of a wider visual arc, transposes surrealism onto pop’s canvas: Georgi suspended in void, prowling night roads, then wandering a crimson forest to embrace a goat and walk through the flames toward a creature of the night… a dream‑logic pilgrimage filmed by Sultan Mars. Sometimes escape calls louder than daylight.
Watch the video for “Shadows” below:
Co‑writer Rob Wells threads early‑2000s hooks through Georgi’s lifelong fixation on ’80s and ’90s industrial music. Yet it is studio sorcerer Dave “Rave” Ogilvie; he of Skinny Puppy, Nine Inch Nails and Ministry infamy, who supercharges the song, stacking analogue circuitry until the mix hums like a power station at midnight.
“Every once in a while, I come across an artist or a song I just have to work on,” says Dave Ogilvie. “With Georgi, it was both. The rest will make history — Georgi is here to stay.”
Ogilvie’s alloyed layers lock with programmer Anthony “Fu” Valcic (Front Line Assembly, Delirium), whose sly nod to Depeche Mode’s It’s No Good earned Martin Gore’s blessing…a synth‑scene benediction.
“When Dave Ogilvie came by the studio to work on Shadows for Georgi, I was immediately drawn to the track. Totally up my alley,” says Valcic. “As things go in the studio, soon I was privileged to get swept into the creative vortex of contributing to this amazing track and indeed into her orbit of collaborators.”
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