‘If a Pre-Raphaelite painting had a pop career.
Or a Victorian ghost discovered indie-folk.’
Georgia Mooney makes lavish, shape-shifting maxi-folk for the plays we stage in our imaginations.
She once made a grand declaration of love to a friend. She wrote a speech, gave him a fortnight to consider, and arranged to meet beneath a fig tree in the botanical gardens for his answer. He arrived late and turned her down. Naturally, she wrote a song about it. Australian Crawl, the first single from her forthcoming second album, Private Theatre.
For the Sydney-born, London-based singer-songwriter, life is full of moments that deserve a more elaborate soundtrack. A consummate storyteller with a taste for the theatrical, Mooney finds the extraordinary in the everyday, transforming the dramas of ordinary human existence into richly imagined musical worlds. Her songs are full of curious observations, unexpected melodies and an irrepressible romantic spirit, though never without a healthy sense of the absurd.
Australian Crawl is a bittersweet, driving song whose musical colours - shades of early Martha Wainwright and Sharon Van Etten - bleed together like tail lights in the rain. Named after the swimming stroke, it transforms romantic rejection into something altogether more triumphant. “We are led to believe that to declare our feelings is… well, a mortifying display of vulnerability and earnestness,” says Mooney. “But I think we do ourselves a great disservice in thinking that way. I strongly believe that to open yourself up to loving someone is the noblest of offerings. A gift worthy of reverence!”
Private Theatre, Mooney's forthcoming second solo album, delights in the strange and at times comical disparity between our outward lives and the grand dramas playing out within them. Written over five weeks in a snowbound house on Prince Edward Island, Canada, and recorded in Brighton with acclaimed producer Marcus Hamblett (Laura Marling, Villagers, The Staves), the album finds Mooney at her most musically adventurous. Analogue synthesizers meet her beloved Appalachian dulcimer (an instrument she, suitably theatrically, won in a raffle), cinematic arrangements give way to eccentric pop flourishes, and the everyday is afforded all the grandeur of the opera.
It is a world Mooney has been building thoughtfully. She first came to prominence as one-quarter of the acclaimed Australian folk band All Our Exes Live In Texas, whose international touring adventures included sharing stages with Midnight Oil, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Backstreet Boys. The group won the 2017 ARIA Award for Best Blues and Roots Album, along with an AIR Award and two National Live Music Awards.
Her 2023 solo debut Full of Moon, co-produced with Grammy-winning Noah Georgeson (Cate Le Bon, Joanna Newsom), introduced a more singular musical imagination. An intricate, dreamlike record of twisting melodies, delicate piano and unexpected instrumental combinations, it earned ARIA, AIR and Australian Folk Music Award nominations. NME Australia called it a “dazzling, inventive pop record: richly textured, captivating and gleefully strange,” while The Australian declared it “nothing short of a triumph. ★★★★1/2”
A beloved musician's musician, Mooney has toured extensively across Australia, North America and Europe, sharing stages with Passenger, Martha Wainwright, Kate Miller-Heidke, Bernard Fanning, Tim Minchin, Matt Corby and others. Recent UK appearances include a sold-out headline show at London's St Pancras Old Church and Brighton's Mutations Festival.
In front of an audience, Mooney's gift for storytelling levels up again. Inspired as much by stand-up comedy as by the singer-songwriter tradition, her performances weave songs and stories together with a warmth, wit and spontaneity that make each show feel like an occasion. Rolling Stone Australia observed that “she played with a tongue-in-cheek elegance that disarmed everyone instantly. I think everyone fell in love at that show.”
Indeed, Mooney's appetite for storytelling has taken her well beyond music. With acclaimed comedians Rhys Nicholson and Kyran Nicholson, she created the comedy podcast Fwends, named among Apple Podcasts' Ten Best podcasts of 2025. She is also the creator and host of Supergroup, an inventive musical variety show in which guest songwriters perform together, often for the first time, and exchange stories about their lives and work. Her (soon to be launched) Slow News Club, meanwhile, brings artists and audiences together through the old-fashioned art of letter writing.
These are the various expressions of a singular creative instinct: a fascination with people, the stories they tell, and the peculiar beauty of being alive. Mooney is interested in what happens when we give our feelings their full dramatic weight, when we choose earnestness over embarrassment, and when we allow ourselves to be a little ridiculous in the pursuit of something wonderful.
“I want to live a life that swims down to the ocean floor and clutches at the sand,” she says. “Or that throws on a costume and delivers an impassioned soliloquy. To choose to live wide-eyed at the private theatre of life will deliver you the best stories. Even the ones that break your heart will at the very least become excellent fodder for a comedy podcast, or indeed, a song…”
New Single
Australian Crawl
Out Now
New Album
Private Theatre
Out April 27, 2027
TRACKLISTING:
1. War Romance
2. I Am Not In A Hurry
3. Break It Off
4. Consider It A Gift
5. What An Inconvenience
6. Some Of Us
7. Winter Island
8. Nothing Is Forever
9. What’ll I Do
10. Soothe You
“Go look at your eyes, they’re full of moon” - Joni Mitchell
This album is for daydreaming. Lyrically, it yearns for connection, examining intimate human relationships, and their variations in perception and fantasy. When stories have many sides, they also have many truths. Musically, it’s a glorious and cinematic sonic fresco, holding beauty, musicality and romance in highest regard. It was recorded remotely over 18 of the strangest months in living memory, linking an all-star band based across three continents. The album grew outward in response to the physical world closing in; even the more intimate songs luxuriate in their drama. Full of Moon’s songs were penned between All Our Exes Live in Texas tours, on solo writing trips all over the world, half on piano and half on a handmade dulcimer Mooney won in a raffle and subsequently fell in love with. Influences from every member of the Wainwrightfamily, Joni Mitchell, the sophistication of the Great American Songbook and even classical composers sift through the songs seamlessly, alongside fuzzed out guitars and production that evokes the unsettling genius of Kate Bush. It was made during a period of global tragedy, as a way to find solace and catharsis in art and love. This record seeks someone to spend the end of the world with.
Praise for Full of Moon
AWARD NOMINATIONS:
PRESS QUOTES:
”It’s nothing short of a triumph, a gorgeously sprawling collection of cinematic art pop that lovingly tips its hat to Kate Bush. Opener War Romance appropriately sets the stage, as Mooney’s voice cuts clean across the low swirl of the piano before being lifted by a lush mess of strings, synths, vocal harmonies and a blistering guitar solo. It’s completely enthralling. The softer moments are the highlights here: the spiralling guitars and strings that encase Mooney in I Am Not In A Hurry, and the tender closer Soothe You, which could have been beamed straight from a dimly lit bar in 1950s New York. Full of Moon is an album to savour and sink in to. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2”
- The Australian
“When executed with this much aplomb, the seemingly disparate pieces of the puzzle align so perfectly, it stuns.
…with an operatic flair that channels both the high drama and raw emotion of Kate Bush. It’s a vocal style that many attempt but very few actually pull off. In this case, Mooney knocks it out of the park.
Full of Moon is a dazzling, inventive pop record: richly textured, captivating and gleefully strange”
- NME Australia
”Mix a sense of longing and a few augmented chords with a pinch of celestial vocals and you will have Full of Moon, the debut solo album by Georgia Mooney, from All Our Exes Live in Texas. The Kate Bush comparisons are easy to draw, with fragile contemplative piano ballads, ascending strings, and a warm, reflective “Mother Superior” vocal treatment. Yet there is plenty of humour to be found on the record, among its more serious relationship reflections. “You’re not a patch on Benedict Cumberbatch” is a line to use in all future relationship breakdowns from here on. It only takes one listen to lead single “War Romance” to know we are hearing a work of surprise and musical sophistication, with chord changes that might even throw Tchaikovsky off. This is a record to sing along to, bleary-eyed in the car, after burning down your love life. Full of Moon is a fun and theatrical record that reflects how lovers change and life goes on. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2”
- The Big Issue
”Full of Moon is lightyears ahead and a treat to listen to. Full of Moon is wonderfully Kate Bush yet never unoriginal. The comparison might be obvious and unavoidable, but from the first seconds of the album to the last, that same ethereal enchantment occurs. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️”
- The AU Review
”A formidable singer, songwriter, and as it turns out, a pop eccentric… full of cinematic, dreamlike pop vignettes… I LOVE this album”
- Tim Shiel, Double J
“Mooney throws back the curtains and pitches beyond the window… navigating a path through light and shadow… brings to mind the Trio work of Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris”
- Bernard Zuel, music journalist
“Her voice and her visions make it clear she has talent to burn, and her songs play like movies you’d see again and again.”
- Spectrum Culture
“achingly beautiful”
- FAULT Magazine
“slow-burning, majestic folk”
- Pilerats
“a collage of lush musical landscapes”
- ABC Radio National, The Music Show
“Mooney’s airy and ornate vocals take center stage..Initially, the track recalls the baroque pop of artists like Weyes Blood, but with the chorus, it steadily takes on a dreamy cinematic sheen, one more akin to Kate Bush”
- Under The Radar
"Mooney’s debut offering is “War Romance”... delivered through [her] searing croon. Light yet poignant, the artist’s vocals carry us through the sea of soaring violins, and hair-raising harmonies… Georgia Mooney transcends the folk band [All Our Exes Live in Texas]’s critical acclaim by embarking on a solo journey…chock-full with pure cinematic artistry"
- Wonderland Magazine
"lush and epic"
- The AU Review
"It’s an ethereal example of detailed and nuanced songwriting, defined by fuzzy guitars and nostalgic, Kate Bush-esque production."
- The Most Radicalist
Praise for Georgia Mooney
”Georgia Mooney is unlike any other currently emerging artist. Her sound soars with a timeless energy that oozes an individuality that was born to be cherished.”
- House of Solo UK
"When she started playing I could immediately understand why the room was packed. She played with a tongue-in-cheek elegance that disarmed everyone instantly. Her lyrics told stories but not without humour, from hinting to an attraction to Benedict Cumberbatch to dropping her pick halfway through a song, the show continued on with a refreshing irreverence and charm. I think everyone fell in love at that show"
- Rolling Stone Australia
"Her voice really is something exceptional; Mooney can drop to the most delicate notes and then suddenly, she soars with such colour and confidence”
- THE BRAG
"Offering dreamy escapism and fantastical romance, the Australian musical polymath has put her best foot forward and proves to be a one-of-a-kind artist to watch."
- She Makes Music
"Mooney is ready for a solo career, which is already being launched very strongly with her debut single “War Romance.”
- Dansende Beren
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