After years delving into instrumental music due to a vocal injury, Gia Margaret is singing again. A new album, Singing, is due April 24 via Jagjaguwar, and you can listen to “Everyone Around Me Dancing” today. A tour of North America and Europe follows in May; find those dates below. Singing was recorded between London, Eau Claire, and Chicago with support players including Kurt Vile, David Bazan, Bon Iver’s Sean Carey, Stars’ Amy Millan, the Weepies’ Deb Talan, and Frou Frou’s Guy Sigsworth.
Margaret says in press materials, “There was a time when I really didn’t know if I would sing again. So once I healed, there was a lot of internal pressure to come back strong. I didn’t know who I was anymore. So it felt like beginning again, and reconnecting with these very old, old parts of myself.” The single, she adds, “is a reflection on feeling isolated and the comfort found in that isolation. It is for taking a pause, for being in observation of a very scary and loud world and it is for finding stillness in our own inner worlds too.”
The Chicago-based composer, songwriter, and pianist released two ambient-leaning albums in the convalescent period that followed 2018’s There’s Always Glimmer: 2020’s Mia Gargaret and 2023’s Romantic Piano.
Gia Margaret:
05-01 New York, NY – Stone Circle Theatre
05-03 Baltimore, MD – Current Space
05-04 Philadelphia, PA – Ethical Society
05-07 Atlanta, GA – Aisle 5
05-08 Nashville, TN – Blue Room
05-12 Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
06-20 Seattle, WA – Fremont Abbey
06-21 Portland, OR – Polaris Hall
06-23 San Francisco, CA – The Chapel
06-26 Los Angeles, CA – Sid The Cat Auditorium
06-27 Pioneertown, CA – Pappy & Harriet’s
06-28 Tucson, AZ – La Rosa
06-30 Santa Fe, NM – Meow Wolf
09-07 Glasgow, Scotland – Òran Mór
09-08 Manchester, England – Halle at St. Michael’s
09-10 London, England – EartH Theatre
09-11 Utrecht, Netherlands – Jacobikerk
09-12 Paris, France – L’Archipel
09-16 Berlin, Germany – Genezarethkirche
Singing:
01 Everyone Around Me Dancing
02 Cellular Reverse
03 Alive Inside
04 Moon Not Mine
05 Rotten
06 Rotten Outro
07 Good Friend
08 Phenomenon
09 Ambient for Ichiko
10 Phone Screen
11 Guitar Duo
12 E-Motion
