How do we cope with the gulf between us and those we’ve lost? On The Land Beyond The Light, the debut full-length by Claire George, the Los-Angeles artist reckons with questions of addiction and death, while exploring new sonic vocabularies in which to house them. The result is an achingly human document of life; an album in turns ecstatic and elegiac. While Claire’s first release, the 2018 EP Bodies of Water, was notable for its wide-eyed celestial synth-pop, The Land Beyond the Light, delves deeper into her dance and pop influences, especially “the organic-sounding, predominantly European electronic music that I love so much,” she says — house, downtempo, UK garage to name a few. The album also finds Claire foregrounding guitar and bass for the first time on a handful of tracks, expanding her sonic palette beyond the ethereal pop productions of her early work. Claire George is a songwriter, producer and vocalist originally from Seattle, WA. Following the release of Bodies of Water in 2018, Claire toured the US & Canada with DRAMA, Diane Coffee and The Midnight. In 2019 she released the stunning piano ballad “Alone, Together,” along with an alternate uptempo rework of the track produced by Josh Burgess of Yumi Zouma. A Yumi Zouma remix of her song “Where Do You Go?” was featured in the opening scene of the Netflix original film All The Bright Places in 2020. Most recently, she released a lowkey, bubbly cover of Donna Lewis’ 1996 classic “I Love You Always Forever.”