Today, Georgie & Joe cite 1980s Japanese ambient artists like Hiroshi Yoshimura, Haruomi Hosono, and the wider Yellow Magic Orchestra extended universe as influential on their sound – particularly the way these artists used high-tech, digital synths in their work. Georgie & Joe use similarly synthetic sounds in their songs, having been drawn to the Yamaha DX7 (a synthesiser beloved by ’80s pop musicians for its glossy and artificial sound) when they started the project. “It felt new – like it didn’t have any kind of pre-existing meaning for what sort of song we should write,” says Georgie. Joe adds: “It creates sounds that are like shit versions of real instruments. There’s something really evocative about a sound that is slightly wrong.”