- Georgia and FTD make sense together: however weird they get, neither duo nor label loses its sense of quirky humour. This helps in making Import Fruit's stranger moments seem warm and inviting. "Planned Dialogue"'s disjointed, endlessly iterating melodies ought to be unsettling, but they're played on a friendly orchestra of synth woodwinds and plucked strings. It's a trick pulled off by some of the Future Times roster, but Georgia put their own winsome spin on it.
Elsewhere, there are (slightly) more DJ-friendly delights. "Baila Decisions" scatters all kinds of scree over a regular kick drum: woody tuned percussion, clattering cowbells, toms and a comedy boing sound. The seeming randomness of the patterns belies the precision with which these elements interlock. "Longry" is more of a holding-pattern loop, built from maracas, claves and splurges of delay.
Though FTD is notionally a dance label, Import Fruit covers the full spectrum of Georgia's sound, which is partly what makes it so satisfying. More contemplative tracks provide an emotional punch: "Actual Behaviour," whose queasy string washes and woodwinds pick out a cautious counterpoint, and "Planned Earth," seven minutes of soothing new age drift. The best track is the simplest. "Pey Woman," in which scattered vocal phonemes give off rich spumes of delay, like overlapping contrails in a clear blue sky.
TracklistA1 Planned Dialogue
A2 Actual Behaviour
A3 Pey Woman
B1 Longry
B2 Baila Decisions
B3 Planned Earth