Album artwork for Georgia Gothic by Mattiel
Album artwork for Georgia Gothic by Mattiel
Album artwork for Georgia Gothic by Mattiel

Georgia Gothic, a magic third in Mattiel’s run of full-length albums, was shaped in the quiet seclusion of a woodland cabin in the north of the Atlanta duo’s mother-state. Cultivated by time spent together on the road touring the first two albums, it is this newfound sense of intimacy between Mattiel’s members that enabled the writing of Georgia Gothic not as two separate musicians, but rather as one creative entity. The album remained within the four walls of Brown and Swilley’s private world for much of its evolution — with recording taking place in a simple studio set up by the pair in the borrowed room of a dialysis centre, Swilley in the producer’s seat — until, nearing completion, it was transferred into the trusted hands of the Grammy-award-winning John Congleton (whose extensive list of credits includes artists as diverse as Angel Olsen, Earl Sweatshirt, Erykah Badu and Sleater Kinney) for mixing. Not only does the affinity between its creators translate into an electric synergy between Georgia Gothic’s words and music — the brine-shock of Brown’s taut lyricism cut against the bourbon-smoothness of Swilley’s instrumentation — but here too are the palpable spoils of experimentation, each party trustful enough of the other to trial and error their practices into new geometries.

Mattiel

Georgia Gothic

Heavenly Recordings
Album artwork for Georgia Gothic by Mattiel
LP

£22.99

With Printed Inner.

Red Hot

Includes download code
Released 18/03/2022Catalogue Number

HVNLP202C

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Album artwork for Georgia Gothic by Mattiel
CD

£11.99

Digisleeve with 8 Page Booklet.

Released 18/03/2022Catalogue Number

HVNLP202CD

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Album artwork for Georgia Gothic by Mattiel
LP +

£27.99£24.99

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Picture Disc housed in Clear PVC Bag.

Released 10/06/2022Catalogue Number

HVNLP202PD

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Mattiel

Georgia Gothic

Heavenly Recordings
Album artwork for Georgia Gothic by Mattiel
LP

£22.99

With Printed Inner.

Red Hot

Includes download code
Released 18/03/2022Catalogue Number

HVNLP202C

Learn more
Album artwork for Georgia Gothic by Mattiel
CD

£11.99

Digisleeve with 8 Page Booklet.

Released 18/03/2022Catalogue Number

HVNLP202CD

Learn more
Album artwork for Georgia Gothic by Mattiel
LP +

£27.99£24.99

sale

Picture Disc housed in Clear PVC Bag.

Released 10/06/2022Catalogue Number

HVNLP202PD

Learn more

Georgia Gothic, a magic third in Mattiel’s run of full-length albums, was shaped in the quiet seclusion of a woodland cabin in the north of the Atlanta duo’s mother-state. Cultivated by time spent together on the road touring the first two albums, it is this newfound sense of intimacy between Mattiel’s members that enabled the writing of Georgia Gothic not as two separate musicians, but rather as one creative entity. The album remained within the four walls of Brown and Swilley’s private world for much of its evolution — with recording taking place in a simple studio set up by the pair in the borrowed room of a dialysis centre, Swilley in the producer’s seat — until, nearing completion, it was transferred into the trusted hands of the Grammy-award-winning John Congleton (whose extensive list of credits includes artists as diverse as Angel Olsen, Earl Sweatshirt, Erykah Badu and Sleater Kinney) for mixing. Not only does the affinity between its creators translate into an electric synergy between Georgia Gothic’s words and music — the brine-shock of Brown’s taut lyricism cut against the bourbon-smoothness of Swilley’s instrumentation — but here too are the palpable spoils of experimentation, each party trustful enough of the other to trial and error their practices into new geometries.