Live Review: George FitzGerald ft. Boxed In 'Full Circle'

George Fitzgerald's lead single 'Full Circle' is a welcome teaser for the springtime release of his pensive new album.

George FitzGerald has been working as a DJ, producer and record label head for a while now but has decided to turn the focus on his own work with a springtime release of his new album, Fading Love.

If you divide your record collection according to genre, it’d fit snugly alongside the likes of Caribou, Joy Orbison or George Maple.

Despite a stint of floor filling big sound releases over the last couple of years (think ‘I can tell by the way you move’ and ‘Child’), the Berlin-based UK producer has stripped things back to basics, with a demure and modest lead single in the shape of the aptly titled ‘Full Circle’.

Fellow UK producer Boxed In provides the forlorn vocals that remain the crux of the track, telling of a doomed relationship that implodes as the other person is ‘always starting the fights/ endless days, endless nights’. The lyrics wash over the drugged up sleepy beats making for an appealing and comforting track, despite the melancholic content.

The restrained vocal style and carefully cultivated synths occasionally give way to expose the bristling energy that rumbles beneath the track’s melodic surface. It’s a song about loneliness, but shows the closure and full circled-ness (geddit) that can come from resigning oneself to being alone.