BROODS’ Georgia Nott unveils debut album as The Venus Project

Georgia Nott of established New Zealand sibling duo BROODS has released the debut album from her new collaborative project The Venus Project.

The release coincides with International Women’s Day, and the record is titled The Venus Project: Vol. 1.

The Venus Project was born out of Nott’s realisation that when she was recording with, or touring with BROODS – that she was often the only woman in the room.

As a result, she wanted to collaborate with as many women as possible on this album – which has been brought to life by a team of women all the way from the album’s production, artwork and management.

Nott was joined by an all-female cast of collaborators for the album, which incldes BROODS’ keyboard player Camila Mora, visual artist and illustrator Ashley Lukashevsky, photographer Catie Laffoon, project manager Sherry Elbe, mix engineer Adrianne ’AG’ Congalez, mastering engineer Emily Lazar and producer Ceci Gomez.

“This project allowed me to speak from an extremely honest place and create another type of music that I’ve wanted to make for a long time,” said Nott.

“The songs themselves are very different to what I’ve created in the past, very raw and low-fi. My hope for this album is to speak to the parts of ourselves we don’t always understand, the parts we feel the need to suppress and ignore, the questions we find too hard to ask ourselves.

“Although I feel this music represents my truth as a woman, the album is for all people. One day I hope the world is not surprised by the extreme talent and genius of creative women, but rather, they value and celebrate women. The expression of women is something the world needs! We can’t evolve without it.”

The 10-track album features previously released singles ’Need A Man’ and ’Won’t Hurt’, the second of which was recently featured in the New York Times playlist and which Nott performed on Billboard Live last week.

Nott and brother Caleb have released two albums as BROODS; 2014’s debut Evergreen and 2016’s Conscious.