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George Ezra

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“The Gold Rush Kid? That’s me,” says George, reflecting on the title of his third record.

After two blockbuster albums – Wanted On Voyage (2014) and Staying At Tamara’s (2018), both of which reached number 1 in the UK and sold millions around the world, and the latter of which earned him his first number 1 single in ‘Shotgun’ and won him the 2019 Brit Award for British Male Solo Artist – it was time to return to heart and hearth, with an album written and produced entirely in London with longstanding collaborator Joel Pott.

‘Anyone For You’ is a patchwork of lyric ideas found in old notebooks and chance moments shared between musicians in the studio,” explains George. “It’s joyous and infectious, and I can’t help but smile every time I sing it. Going through those notebooks, one of the first scribblings that caught his eye was a verse he’d written when he was 23, before even he’d begun work on his second album:“Tiger Lily moved to the city, she’d just turned 21, and I said: here’s my number, hit me up, if you’re needing anyone, and then I can be anyone anyone anyone anyone anyone for you...”

It kicks off a sparkling song that speaks of support and encouragement, and builds to a glorious singalong-a-George chorus: “Let me be your light!” Like the album as a whole, it’s as if Ezra has alchemised the darkness of the last two years into revivifying, invigorating light.

‘Anyone For You’ is out now, and Gold Rush Kid is released on 10th June 2022.

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