Album Review: All That Emotion by Hannah Georgas

If you could give your bygone self advice, what would you say? Hannah Georgas certainly knows. Through music that evokes both the nostalgia of muggy summer flings and encroaching autumn melancholy, the Canadian singer-songwriter empathetically and melodically moans to her prior incarnation: "None of this matters though it hurts like hell," she sings on "Same Mistakes. " Thanks to Georgas's vocals, the wincing guitar riffs, ticktock-fleeting-time percussion and downcast piano, this song amounts to a heartfelt and intricate highlight from her new LP, All That Emotion.

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Prior to releasing All That Emotion, her fourth studio album, Juno-nominated songwriter Hannah Georgas spent part of 2019 on tour with the National, both singing backup for the group and opening select shows. Prior to that, she had commuted from her home in Toronto to New York's Hudson Valley for recording sessions with the National's Aaron Dessner, who produced the album. Her debut for Dessner's Brassland label, All That Emotion is a personal work inspired by her own relationships, interactions, and things like long, late-night conversations with friends.

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In 2009, Hannah Georgas wrote a song about hoping to run into an ex at a National concert. Like most of Georgas's music, "The National" is both an internal monologue and an address, the things she thinks but would not say: "The other day someone mentioned your name/It brought back hurt and all your pain." As the National became arena-rock stars, and the band's Aaron Dessner a celebrated producer in his own right, Georgas found success in her home country of Canada, garnering multiple Juno Award nominations across three albums. In 2018, after a year spent recording demos alone, she and Dessner began to collaborate on a fourth.

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Before working with Taylor Swift on her critically acclaimed “surprise lockdown” album Folklore, Aaron Dessner (The National) had already began working with Canadian musician Hannah Georgas on her fourth album, All That Emotion. Although being a somewhat different artistic beast to Folklore, it is an album imbued with the same sense of space with Dessner’s production affording Georgas’ voice the space to breathe. Indeed in the press materials, Georgas states, “Aaron and I agreed the production needed to bring out the truth in my voice.

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F ans of the National might have spotted the burgeoning Canadian singer-songwriter Hannah Georgas opening for the band on their 2019 tour, taking on backing vocals, too. Georgas's own songs are gossamer things, sometimes revealing unexpectedly deep undertows. Here, on her fourth album - the follow-up to her 2016 breakout LP, For Evelyn - they make a fine match for the producerly flutters of the National's Aaron Dessner, now mainstream-famous as the enabler of Taylor Swift's recent indie-folk conversion, Folklore.

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