Georgia Ruth is a musician from Aberystwyth in west Wales whose work blends folk traditions with a distinctive and contemporary voice.

Her debut album Week of Pines (2013) won the Welsh Music Prize and earned two nominations at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, establishing her as one of Wales’ most exciting new voices. She went on to collaborate with the Manic Street Preachers before releasing her second album Fossil Scale. In 2020, she returned with her third album Mai on Bubblewrap Records, followed by the companion remix collection Mai:2 – featuring reworkings by Gwenno and others – and an EP of brand new material, Kingfisher.

Her fourth studio album, Cool Head, was written in the year following her husband and collaborator’s serious illness. Georgia describes the record as “a long drive through night into morning,” with the phrase “cool head” – her father’s words of encouragement for calm thinking – providing both its title and emotional compass. The album moves seamlessly between wide-open Americana and 1960s-influenced folk balladry, presenting her most candid and affecting collection of songs to date.

Recorded at Sain Studios near Caernarfon, Cool Head features contributions from Iwan Huws (Cowbois Rhos Botwnnog), Stephen Black (Sweet Baboo), Gwion Llewelyn (Aldous Harding), and Rhodri Brooks (Melin Melyn). Legendary Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci songwriter Euros Childs lends his unmistakable voice to two tracks, while Gruff Ab Arwel’s string arrangements, performed by Angharad Davies, Angharad Jenkins, and Patrick Rimes, bring a new dimension to the songs. The album was co-produced with long-time collaborator Iwan Morgan, cementing Cool Head as a deeply personal and truly Welsh affair.