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Photo Credit: Vanessa Heins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s impossible not to be enveloped by the intimate, searing voice and songwriting of Hannah Georgas. Georgas has been taking listeners on an emotional, and sometimes existential, journey since her debut EP, The Beat Stuff<\/em><\/a>, in 2009. Steadily moving from small regional stages throughout Canada to stadium openings for Sara Bareilles, The National, City and Colour, Rhye, and more, the Juno and Polaris Music Prize nominee released the heart-rending For<\/em> Evelyn<\/em><\/a>\u00a0in 2016. Inspired by her grandmother, For Evelyn<\/em> took Georgas\u2019 expressive lyricism and unflinching quality even deeper on tracks \u201cRide Back,\u201d \u201cWalls\u201d and \u201cLost Cause.\u201d In 2019 she switched it up with the release of digital EP, Imprints<\/em><\/a>, featuring the sexy remake of Janet Jackson\u2019s \u201cThat\u2019s the Way Love Goes\u201d with Emily King. Now, Georgas returns with All That Emotion<\/em>, a\u00a0 stripped, stark and luminescent album written between the spaces of loss and change.<\/p>\n

\u201cI realized that a lot of the songs were a result of the things that were going on in my personal and work life at that time,\u201d explains Georgas a few days before its release. \u201cI had finished my album cycle\u00a0for\u00a0For Evelyn<\/em>\u00a0and was settling into my new place in Toronto after having moved from my home in\u00a0Vancouver of\u00a013 years or so. That change was sinking in a little bit. I was going through a breakup at that time as well and I was trying to sort out some new pieces with my team in music. All of these changes were being expressed in what I was writing and reflecting upon. I wanted to explore the idea of change and how when it is happening it can feel uncomfortable and challenging. It’s hard sometimes to see the good in it but more often than not it ends up showing you something really beautiful in a way you never thought.\u201d<\/p>\n

The making of All That Emotion<\/em> was like nothing she had done before. Recording tracks \u201cin concentrated periods of time with breaks in between,\u201d A.T.E<\/em> was the first album Georgas recorded outside of Canada, in upstate New York. The long drives from Toronto to NY allowed her dedicated time to just focus solely and freely on one moving song after another, and helped create tracks like \u201cPray It Away\u201d and \u201cSame Mistakes,\u201d both of which grapple with despair, heartache and brewing resentments. Georgas describes the time as both therapeutic and refreshing. \u201c[Song writing] always felt like a clear way to express how I’m feeling,\u201d she says. “A lot of the time when I sit down to write I’m wanting to express something that I’m trying to work through. I think as I get older, I’m learning that I really want to get better at accepting who I am and that I make mistakes.”<\/p>\n