Georgia Fields conjures a mesmerising spell of indie-folk alchemy.
A staple of the Melbourne music scene for over 16 years, Georgia has toured the country and supported some of Australia’s best loved artists – including Katie Noonan, Pierce Brothers, Clare Bowditch, Mia Dyson, Charm of Finches, Sally Seltmann, Didirri, Ella Hooper, Jack Carty and Frente.
On stage in her captivating, one-woman show, Georgia shifts between guitar, mini-synth and textural vocal loops, “painting entire worlds with her tunes” (Frankie Magazine). The innovative singer-songwriter blurs the lines between modern folk, intelligent pop, and artful soundscapes. Festival highlights include Queenscliff Music Festival, Festival of Voices Tasmania, Mullum Music Festival, Majors Creek Folk Festival, St Kilda Festival, and Melbourne Music Week, amongst others.
Georgia’s melodic, lyric-driven songs and warm onstage charisma have earned her a reputation as one of our brightest artists.
“Georgia Fields dreams fantastic Technicolour. Her subconscious teems with breathless stuff about flying, falling and lunar possession. Darkly-coded collisions of fairytale and myth… Plain-speaking love songs swelling with strings to make George Martin weep... Irrepressible pop.” ★★★★
– The Sydney Morning Herald
Artist Biography
Artist Biography
Georgia Fields combines the astral with the ordinary, earning her a reputation as one of Melbourne’s brightest singer-songwriters.
Georgia released her third album Hiraeth in November 2022 to critical acclaim. Hiraeth received extensive airplay on PBS FM, Triple R and community radio nationwide. The Australian Newspaper gave the album four stars, praising the “meticulously crafted art-pop arrangements”, and announcing “Hiraeth feels like a moment of arrival for Fields”. Beat Magazine were also wooed, declaring “her weightless vocal makes us feel airborne... Hiraeth beautifully encapsulates the rich complexity of the human experience.”
Georgia supported some of Australia’s best loved artists, including: Pierce Brothers, Katie Noonan, Clare Bowditch, Mia Dyson, Sally Seltmann, Didirri, Ella Hooper and Frente. Career highlights include a national television appearance on SBS’s RocKwiz, and performances at Queenscliff Music Festival, Mullum Music Festival, Festival of Voices Tasmania, St Kilda Festival, Melbourne Music Week, Brisbane Powerhouse, Melbourne Fashion Week, National Gallery of Victoria, ACMI, and Melbourne Recital Centre.
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Georgia first made her mark on the Melbourne music scene in 2007, with her EP Drama on the High Seas of Emotion. Each CD cover was lovingly handmade from vintage Little Golden Books. A string of festival shows followed, and in 2010 Georgia released her debut self-titled album: a lush, orchestral-pop opus featuring her 15-piece Mini-Indie-Orchestra (strings, brass, woodwind, tuned percussion, rhythm section, plus a cordless drill and children’s toys). The debut LP was awarded Album of the Week for ABC Radio National and Beat Magazine, and saw her perform on national television for SBS’ RocKwiz.
In the years that followed, Georgia continued to tour, write, collaborate (notably, a performance with a string quintet from the MSO for Melbourne Music Week), and graduated from university with a Bachelor of Music. Then in 2014, while pregnant with her first child, she began production on her sophomore album, recording this independently following a successful crowd-funding campaign.
Astral Debris was released in 2016, again to critical acclaim – including a 4-star review in The Sydney Morning Herald, who described it as “alluring” and “irrepressible pop”. The Herald Sun hailed Astral Debris as “her finest, most expansive work yet”. Produced in collaboration with electronic artist/composer Tim Shiel, the album received airplay on Double J, ABC Radio National, and community radio across the country – in particular PBS FM and Triple R, who both included Astral Debris amongst their feature album shortlists.
In 2017, Georgia released Afloat, Adrift: a retrospective EP recorded live in collaboration with the Andromeda String Quartet. Raw and visceral, yet sweeping with an old-world romance, Afloat, Adrift featured new string quartet versions of material spanning her career. Frankie Magazine premiered the release, proclaiming “Georgia Fields has a voice you simply cannot un-hear… The evocative songstress paints entire worlds.”
Georgia's most recent album Hiraeth is a widescreen vision of melodic, artful pop. Produced by Josh Barber (Gretta Ray; Gotye), the album takes its title from a Welsh word with no direct translation, referring to a profound longing for a home you can’t return to as it no longer exists. From stories of motherhood, infidelity and death – to rapturous anthems of healing and home – at its core, Hiraeth is an ode to the many languages of longing.
Thanks to funding support from both the Australia Council for the Arts and Creative Victoria, the album was recorded over a 6-month period in producer/drummer Josh Barber’s own studio – a 1930s converted church at the back of his property on Dja Dja Wurrung country (regional Victoria). Georgia and Josh performed almost all instrumentation across Hiraeth, with Jules Pascoe (Jazz Party; Husky) contributing bass guitar, and the Andromeda String Quartet making an appearance on three tracks.
Georgia is currently working on material for her fourth album.
