Muffled sounds in the background. A quick gasp.

“Can you call you back in 10 minutes?”

A click. Silence.

Hannah Georgas just saved the day. Well, not really. A woman fainted in front of her in line at an Urban Outfitters in Toronto and she hung up to help her. It’s this kind of nicety that seems to define the indie-darling whether she’s on stage or in line.

Georgas slowly crept onto the scene in 2008 with her EP The Beat Stuff,  followed in 2010 by the full-length album This Is Good.  Her voice is a juxtaposition of angry rawness and and tender longing, one that will break your heart and than write you an apology note afterwards.

With the release of her record, Georgas has been touring across Canada with the Royal Wood. She’s ventured from the True North soil to play gigs in New York City and Germany.

“Right now, I’m just trying to push and push and do as much as I can with my music. Bring it on,” she said, releasing an infectious, crackling laugh.

This is Good was produced with the help of producers Howard Redekopp (the New Pornographers, Tegan and Sara) and Ryan Guldemond (Mother Mother).The songs are flushed with gumption and gentleness to keep the record spinning — the shot and the chase all at once.

“Holding the record in my hand, all pressed and delivered to my door, was a really cool moment,” Georgas said.

Georgas grew up in Newmarket, Ont. where she first started making music, and then headed west to Vancouver for university. Since then she’s been making music professionally.

“I’m a sponge,” she said. “Wherever I go I pick up inspiration.”

Georgas is quickly becoming Canada’s newest indie queen, but she said her new fame hasn’t changed her. She said she’s glad she can live her daily life, which is focused on touring and music writing.

Travelling, especially travelling down roads, has been a theme for Georgas this year. She was chosen by CBC Radio 2 to take part in the Great Canadian Song Quest, a cute, idiosyncratic (and totally Canuck) project that asked musicians to write songs honouring stretches of roads that listeners voted for.

“I thought it was a different approach to writing a song,” Georgas said. “It’s about what song you want to listen to when you’re on that road.”

Georgas represented her adopted province British Columbia, and wrote the song “Drive” about Freedom Highway.

“I’ve sent a lot of time in a van, I’ve travelled down a lot of roads. So I made [the song] personal,” she said. “I meshed in my stories with the stories of Freedom Highway.”

For Georgas, writing music is cathartic, a place to flesh out the crappiness — or happiness — of the day.

“When it’s out it feels incredible and I can move on,” she said. “Then it’s up to someone else to interpret it.”

The interpreters, her fans, range from 15 through the mid-40s, and many of them tend to be CBC listeners, she said.

“The mix of fans I get is random. But I like that. Any fan is a great fan, but I like having a whole different slew and variety of people.”

For her fans, Georgas posts her top three songs of the week on her blog. She said it’s a way to get personal with the people who support her.

“When I hear a song I get excited about it, it’s almost like writing a new song,” she said. “I want to listen to it over and over until I don’t want to listen anymore.”

Georgas said she hopes to have some new songs of her own to share with fans in the new year. For now, she said she’s enjoying life on the road — and saving the day, of course.

Georgas plays the NAC Studio Nov. 20 with the Royal Wood.