How To Stay Wide Awake

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An amazing album. Difficult to categorise with 90s style beats, shoegaze, electronically, deeply personal lyrics. Lots of reference points but very unique. One for now and the future. Favorite track: Eternity.

nomadnatty On this first listen, I realize that I've been hoping for this sound and feel combo in an album since I was about 18. That young woman in a body now more than twice that age is having one helluva groove right now! I will be stoked to hear the full album in April!

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1.	Eternity 03:16	buy track
2.	Find the Time 03:23	buy track
3.	Queen 03:06	buy track
4.	Internet Cafe 03:39	buy track
5.	Methuselah 03:01	buy track
6.	Lava Lamp 02:55	buy track
7.	Early Morning 04:02	buy track
8.	Dreamworld 04:33	buy track
9.	Cyberdaze 03:10	buy track
10.	Don't Stare 02:59	buy track
11.	Writing On the Wall 03:15	buy track
12.	Amorphous 03:47	buy track
13.	Eternity (GLOK Remix) 06:15	buy track
14.	Queen (Timothy Clerkin Remix) 06:48	buy track
15.	Amorphous (Minotaur Shock Remix) 07:28	buy track
16.	Methuselah (Maps Remix) 05:55	buy track

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How to Stay Wide Awake, the debut album from the Liverpool artist Seagoth, is a genre-bending bouquet of retro synthesisers, surf vibrations, arty pop and nihilistic lyricism, written and recorded by
Georgia in their bedroom, with the aim of providing a raw insight into the queer and female experience. However, during the process, they managed to tap into something way more universal — the human condition.

The album follows a well received run of singles, which were supported by BBC Introducing (Seagoth recorded an acoustic session for Dave Monks at BBC Music Introducing in Liverpool), Amazing Radio, John Kennedy at Radio X, Soho Radio’s Simone Marie (Primal Scream) and many more. The most recent single, ‘Internet Cafe’, is a delightful, hazy dreampop song, where feelings of existential melancholy linger elegantly; 4AD guitars shimmering with reverb blend with electronics in a song exploring how internet culture and social media affects people’s lives.

In 2017, in the midst of a teen-haze and creative flurry, Georgia started studying music at college in the northwest of England, where they assumed the moniker Seagoth. Inspired by the gloomy and expansive soundscapes of shoegaze bands like Slowdive and Beach
House, the fuzzy components of the experimental noise-pop band Teen Suicide and movie/video game soundtracks, they began to flesh out a world of her own.

Recording everything from guitar to vocals on Garageband for several years, Georgia produced three EPs and an album of demos. In February 2020 and with college suddenly cut short because of Covid
the same month, they put everything to one side and started the process of recording How to Stay Wide Awake in earnest.

First came ‘Eternity’, inspired by Tame Impala’s ‘Breathe Deeper’ and alt-J’s ‘Dissolve Me’, which was released in February 2021. It was endorsed by Andy Bell of shoegaze legends RIDE (he played it on his Soho Radio show) and the actor Robert Carlyle on Twitter, bringing Seagoth to the attention of the Dorset/London label Bytes. “Eternity made me feel like I was doing something right for the first time.”
The original track was given a fresh mix by the sound engineer/producer Leaf Troup (GLOK/Kasabian) and re-released on Bytes in November 2021, with a remix by Bell under his electronic alter ego GLOK. With the album now recorded, a string of singles followed, starting with the glittering glam-rock anthem ‘Queen’ (June 2022) — “It’s about the prevalent and constant demoralisation young women have to face in society” — then the politically charged rock anthem ‘Amorphous’ (October 2022). “It represents struggling to fit in and hopelessness. Sometimes my emotions can feel like a storm ripping right through me. Some people say the universe expresses itself through humans, I think I agree. I wrote this song about it as a reminder that we are just nature.”

In June 2023 came another single, ‘Methuselah’ — a New Age-inflected indie-rock track referencing both Caroline Polachek and Deerhunter — which was complemented by a stunning, euphoric remix from Maps (aka Mute’s James Chapman).

It’s been a long road to fruition, with Georgia taking on and shedding band members along the way, but it’s fitting that they are standing on their own as the album is released. This is their labour of love, meticulously crafted over the years. And it’s well worth the wait, 12
accomplished tracks that sound fresh and ebullient; a bedroom indie-pop record propelled into another dimension by a stunning mix from Leaf Troup and mastering at Curved Pressing.

“For a long time I felt resentment toward my emotions, like they didn’t serve me or my best interests. I prioritised convenience and forgot I was a living creature in the process. Learning to work with my emotions has been fundamental to my healing process, and this album is dedicated to all of the people who can’t take a day off from themselves, to the people who have to face their greatest fears every single day — and to all the pain we feel, may we heal.”

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released April 12, 2024

(p) and (c) Bytes 2024
Written and produced by Georgia Ochoa
Mixed by Leaf Troup
Mastered at Curved Pressings

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