New Music Release - Indie-Pop artist Geoff Ong delivers uplifting new EP Diverging Lines - April 2025

Credit: Hellie Coyne

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Artist Name: Geoff Ong

Release Name - Diverging Lines

Release Date - Friday 11th April 2025

Genre - Indie Pop

Label - Independent

Tāmaki Makaurau-based indie-pop artist Geoff Ong has today shared his hotly anticipated second EP, DIVERGING LINES, alongside an electric new single, which takes its name from the record.

Packed with self-produced and utterly wholesome bangers, DIVERGING LINES offers an intimate insight into Geoff's honest and raw songwriting, and his undeniable talent for encapsulating sensitive subject matter in a way that makes listeners feel less alone. Through topics of growing up, grief, friendship, nostalgia, and navigating the 21st century, paired with captivating indie-pop production, Geoff invites grooving, foot-tapping, and introspection.

Today’s release from the self-proclaimed “pop star for dorks” features 2024’s catchy and candid coming of age anthem, ‘When It Gets Easy’ (The Listener, Seven Sharp, TAHI FM, Radio One) and the pulsing climate-conscious ‘What Will We Do When The Ocean Comes?’ (Tearaway, 95bFM), which stole hearts at its debut performance with The Exploding Rainbow Orchestra in 2023.

Also featured is the new single ‘Diverging Lines’, which oozes an 80s-infused synth-pop style belying its melancholic, raw subject matter.

“I lost a friend to suicide in 2024, and this song really became a vehicle for processing my grief around

that time,” says Geoff. “It made me reflect a lot on relationships with friends and family… sometimes our lines run parallel to each other and then we diverge. So the question then became, ‘How do I make the most of the time that I have with the lines I'm running parallel with right now?’ and ‘How do I show up the best I can for the people I love?’”

The new track was written, produced, mixed and mastered entirely by Geoff in his home studio - like most of the songs on DIVERGING LINES, except for ‘When It Gets Easy’, which was mixed and mastered by Emily Wheatcroft-Snape (Fazerdaze, Lorde, Tiny Ruins).

Other new tracks revealed on the EP include ‘The Internet Is Haunted’, which questions the impact that technology has on our relationships, and ‘I Am Just A Tapestry’, a warm and unravelling song detailing the little parts of ourselves we leave with one another.

“I really believe that platonic relationships can be just as impactful in our lives as romantic relationships,” says Geoff. “Both in how they define who we are as people when we are in them, and how heartbreaking they can be when they end.”

An inspiring collection of heartfelt experiences and feelings, DIVERGING LINES is the perfect soundtrack for self-reflection. Listeners won’t want to miss this stunning new chapter in Geoff Ong’s story!

To celebrate the release of DIVERGING LINES, Geoff Ong and his full band will be playing a release show at Ponsonby Social Club on Saturday April 12! Tickets and more info from UTR.

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