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On 'Seeking Thrills,' Georgia Channels A Lifetime On The Dance Floor

British musician Georgia has a new album out full of throwback dance beats and stripped-back vocals. It's called Seeking Thrills and aims to capture the unifying force of a good club beat.
"I feel like my whole identity, really, is caught up in the dance floor world," Georgia says. Her newest album <em>Seeking Thrills </em>is out this month.

Music is a kind of family inheritance for Georgia Barnes. The stories she tells of her relatives usually come back to music or dancing some way or another. Her dad used to play in an electronic group called Leftfield.

"My bedroom was actually Leftfield's studio," she says. "It was keyboards, drum machines, wires, bits of percussion, microphones."

It's no surprise that Georgia Barnes would grow up to have her own career in music. Performing simply as Georgia, her latest album, , came out this month and is a record to dance to, with driving beats and catchy hooks. Georgia told NPR that her first instrument was the drums — when

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