SINGLE REVIEW: GEORGIA NEVADA - COOKIE CUTTER

If you are in need of something to blow those Christmas cobwebs away then Georgia Nevada's new single "Cookie Cutter" seems set to do that, announcing itself with some fearsome guitar riffs. The crackling of electricity is definitely in the air and only just starting to fade as Georgia arrives with her initial vocal,

"Smile and be polite, bite your tongue

And take your time

Go on, speak for me 

Say what you wanna say

But you know that I don't work that way"

Those initial lines come with a a somewhat knowing vocal. Georgia seems to have been down this road before. It is only with the final line, punctuated with more punchy guitar, that she finally takes control.

This is Georgia not wanting to fit into a preconceived vision of who she should be, and if there be any doubt about who she is, then it it is firmly nailed in the explosive chorus, a mesh of percussion and guitars, where the alliterative words of the title are firmly driven home syllable by syllable. The sweet almost playful vocal of the opening verse is replaced with a more suitably rocking delivery.

"I got the mind of an outlaw

Dead set in her ways

And the heart of a cowboy

Ain’t a fan of playing games

And a mouth like a sailor

Hits like a scream

I'm not your cookie cutter dream"

The second verse musically is slightly different, the sound of an acoustic guitar comes through high in the mix, perhaps giving a nod to the songs original sound on creation, though have no fear, it still rocks! Lyrically it reinforces those feelings of not wanting to be contained or to be forced to be a lesser version of who she is.

"Embers inside you sparkle like fireflies

But I’m more about the flames

Don't blow your smoke

I see through the clouds

So take a step back down"

There's an attention grabbing rocking interlude, that does not overstay its welcome before we head into the finale of a repeated choruses.These final versions of the chorus are quite different, the first expressed mainly over percussion and a prominent bass guitar, an instrument not normally brought to the foreground, but here given its day in the sun. The latter version is an embodiment of all that has musically gone before with each of the sounds able to be clearly picked up.

With tour dates to follow in March and April, make your New Year's resolution a commitment to get to know the works of Georgia Nevada just that little bit better.

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