Georgia Mintz scuzzed up shoegaze sorrow in the sludgy alt rock confessional, ‘Come Back’ –

Georgia Mintz does not waste time with pleasantries in Come Back. If an artist opens a track on the lyric, “I’m having sex with strangers, I’m lying to my mom”, you know you’re in for a barrage of bruises, and Georgia comes down heavy in their sophomore single, which digs into the kind of grief that leaves teeth marks. A Boston-based alternative rocker with a soft spot for folk confessionals, Mintz uses the track to pick at the scab of absence until it sings, and the effect is as intoxicating as it is uncomfortable.

Come Back starts off in the nostalgic annals of shoegaze before scuzzing up the distortion with swathes of fuzzy rancour to absolve the pain of the previous confessions. It’s messy, it’s chaotic, but Georgia Mintz knows exactly where to push their sound to deliver visceralism and where to scale back to build tension. Each swell in the sludgy alt-rock arrangement adds more intensity to the wounding cry into the void that an absence created. The abrupt, mid-lyrical refrain ending leaves you hanging in the best and worst possible way, stuck between craving resolve and knowing there may never be any for this particular grief-stricken vignette.

As a rising Boston-based artist, Mintz has already started to carve out a space with intimate and edgy alt-rock songs that lean into vulnerability as much as volume. Come Back, released as their second single in November, traces the emotional fallout of someone leaving without sanitising the wreckage. It leaves behind the ghost of expectation, promising more resonant sonic friction from an artist championing sludgy alt-rock innovation and unflinching emotional candour.

Come Back is now available on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify. 

– Review by Amelia Vandergast