Stay In Touch

Across her stunning debut album, Stay in Touch, Georgia Harmer captures ineffable moments with expressive detail: the euphoric memory of a summer’s day so perfect you want to live inside it forever, the dusty heat of a Texas afternoon, a tingle of melancholy on a solo walk home after a party. With a wisdom and poise that belies her twenty-two years, the Toronto-based singer-songwriter has penned an emotionally resonant collection of songs that articulate the ways in which even the most fleeting experiences can forge bonds between strangers, create families out of friends, and one by one form the joys and sorrows that make up a life. Stay in Touch spans everything from intimate folk and strummy country to sophisticated jazz and pop-kissed rock. Crammed into the corner of a West Toronto garage, Harmer and her band created musical landscapes that live up to the lyrical richness of the songs. The record sparkles with the lightning in a bottle feel of a band in thrall to their musical chemistry, adding more depth to the record’s themes. Stay in Touch is inspired both by the relationships of Harmer’s past and the joy of finding your people in the here and now. It’s an unforgettable statement from a new artist with a heartbreakingly simple message: when you stay in touch with the experiences that have shaped you, you stay in touch with yourself.

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Born to a musical family, 22-year-old Georgia Harmer has been immersed in music for as long as she can remember. “My dad would give me these little guitars that he would tune to an open chord so I could just strum and sing along,” she recalls. She started recording her own songs when she was just 10 years old, and as a teenager, she toured with fellow Canadian artist Alessia Cara as a backing vocalist. But when the time came time to make her own album, she knew she had to create it with like-minded people and so she dropped out of university, and soon began jamming with jazz students in Toronto. It seems to have worked out well for her because in doing so she met the very people who would help her craft her debut album, Stay in Touch, including Jasper Smith who engineered and co-produced the LP.