Seagoth announces debut album How to Stay Wide Awake

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Liverpool artist Seagoth’s debut LP is a genre-bending bouquet of retro synthesisers, surf vibrations, arty pop and nihilistic lyricism.

Written and recorded by Georgia in their bedroom, with the aim of providing a raw insight into the queer and female experience. However, during the process, they managed to tap into something way more universal — the human condition.

The album follows a well received run of singles, which were supported by BBC Introducing (Seagoth recorded an acoustic session for Dave Monks at BBC Music Introducing in Liverpool), Amazing Radio, John Kennedy at Radio X, Soho Radio’s Simone Marie (Primal Scream) and many more. The most recent single, ‘Internet Cafe’, is a delightful, hazy dreampop song, where feelings of existential melancholy linger elegantly; 4AD guitars shimmering with reverb blend with electronics in a song exploring how internet culture and social media affects people’s lives.

In 2017, in the midst of a teen-haze and creative flurry, Georgia started studying music at college in the northwest of England, where they assumed the moniker Seagoth. Inspired by the gloomy and expansive soundscapes of shoegaze bands like Slowdive and Beach House, the fuzzy components of the experimental noise-pop band Teen Suicide and movie/video game soundtracks, they began to flesh out a world of her own.

Recording everything from guitar to vocals on Garageband for several years, Georgia produced three EPs and an album of demos. In February 2020 and with college suddenly cut short because of Covid the same month, they put everything to one side and started the process of recording How to Stay Wide Awake in earnest.

It’s been a long road to fruition, with Georgia taking on and shedding band members along the way, but it’s fitting that they are standing on their own as the album is released. This is their labour of love, meticulously crafted over the years. And it’s well worth the wait, 12 accomplished tracks that sound fresh and ebullient; a bedroom indie-pop record propelled into another dimension by a stunning mix from Leaf Troup and mastering at Curved Pressing.

“For a long time I felt resentment toward my emotions, like they didn’t serve me or my best interests. I prioritised convenience and forgot I was a living creature in the process. Learning to work with my emotions has been fundamental to my healing process, and this album is dedicated to all of the people who can’t take a day off from themselves, to the people who have to face their greatest fears every single day — and to all the pain we feel, may we heal.”

How to Stay Wide Awake is available to pre-order digitally and on a limited edition CD, which features all the remixes – GLOK Remix of Eternity, Minotaur Shock’s Amorphous take Maps’ Methuselah and our very own Timothy Clerkin’s rework of Queen.

Pre Order Limited Edition How To Stay Wide Awake CD here

The full tracklisting is:

1. Eternity
2. Find the Time
3. Queen
4. Internet Cafe
5. Methuselah
6. Lava Lamp
7. Early Morning
8. Dreamworld
9. Cyberdaze
10. Don’t Stare
11. The Writing on the Wall
12. Amorphous
13. Eternity (GLOK Remix)
14. Queen (Timothy Clerkin Remix)
15. Amorphous (Minotaur Shock Remix)
16. Methuselah (Maps Remix)