Kevin Bronson on December 1st, 2017

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Georgi Kay is an L.A.-based British-Australian artist whose credits include an album, a handful of EPs and singles, a Grammy nomination (in 2013 for the Atwell remix of the Ivan Gough & Feenixpawl “In My Mind”) and collaborations with some of the biggest names in EDM. These days she’s calling herself a “lone wolf” — using her singing, writing, production and looping skills to make bold, sleek electronic pop. Earlier this year, she released the dark (and timely) single “Scary People,” a meditation about living in scary times. This week, she followed up with “Guilty Pleasures,” a sultry, hypnotic track about lusting for somebody you can’t have, so the “pleasure” part exists only in one’s imagination.

“It’s about falling in love with someone who, despite the deep emotional connection being mutual, is romantically tied down by another. It’s about sinking into the intensity of that connection on a spiritual, mental and emotional level, because you are unable to explore the physical side of that bond,” says the songwriter, born Georgina Kingsley. “You don’t want to taint the relationship you are building with that person by destroying the one that still stands, so you imagine meeting them in your dreams, essentially creating an imaginary world where there are no boundaries or lines you can’t cross, where it is only you and them — where nothing else matters but the pure love that is shared between the two of you.”

||| Stream: “Guilty Pleasures” and “Scary People”