Rising singer-songwriter Genevieve Dawson has announced details of her new five-track EP What’s Mine Is Yours, available May 26th on Hertha Records.
The lead track “My Mother’s Rage” is available digitally now listen here – and will be available as a limited 7-inch single (also released May 26th) backed with the EP’s closing track “Made from The Earth”
Tracks from Genevieve’s 2020 debut album Letters I Won’t Send were championed on BBC 6Music by Guy Garvey, Tom Robinson and Gideon Coe, and also received plays on BBC Radio London and Jazz FM. Recorded at Zig Zag Studios in Woolwich, What’s Mine Is Yours develops her sound further, bringing in swelling synths and strings with flourishes of Electronica. Together with co-producer Callum Haynes, Dawson has created rich textures which hold the songs afloat, counterbalancing the often heavy subject matter.
“I was listening to a lot of Fiona Apple’s ‘Fetch the Bolt Cutters’ and Kelly Lee Owens’ ‘Inner Song’,” explains Edinburgh-born Genevieve, who studied music in London and remains based in the capital. “I wanted the rattling, dirty, aggressive sound of the drums on ‘Fetch the Bolt Cutters’ and some of the expansive synth world that Kelly’s record has, that suggests big open skies and strength to me.”
“My Mother’s Rage fell out of me almost in one go, the melody seemed to arrive from somewhere outside of me,” she continues. “I’d been thinking a lot about inherited and lived trauma and all the pent-up rage that needs to go somewhere. The ‘mother’ in the song is both my mother and all the mothers, all the women who came before me who’ve had to carry so much violence on their backs.
“I often feel, and I know my friends do, that when someone harasses me in the street, this red rage runs through me top to toe, and it’s not just about that moment it’s about all the moments that branch out from it. I think this song is somewhere to put that rage and to feel less alone with it.”
The track features Genevieve on lead vocals and synths, with Rick Leigh on flugelhorn and Jake Long on drums. For the backing vocals, they left the confines of the studio.
“The backing vocals were recorded with a group of friends in Woolwich Foot Tunnel at midnight – I wanted us to be literally underwater, like the lyric says. It felt like a strange ritual, meeting late at night, and descending into this space below the Thames to sing and scream together. We got some great looks from late night walkers passing through…!”
Genevieve is playing live at the Castle Hotel Manchester on the 18th JUNE
Tickets on sale now from See Tickets
