After a six-year break from vocals due to injury, Chicago artist Gia Margaret announces her new album Singing, set for release on April 24 via Jagjaguwar. The album features collaborations with musicians like Kurt Vile and David Bazan, and includes the single “Everyone Around Me Dancing,” available now. A tour across North America and Europe begins in May.
Gia Margaret, a Chicago-based composer, songwriter, and pianist, has shifted back to vocal music following a vocal injury that led her to instrumental work for six years. Her previous releases during this period included the ambient-leaning albums Mia Gargaret in 2020 and Romantic Piano in 2023, after her 2018 vocal album There’s Always Glimmer.
The new album, titled Singing, was recorded in locations including London, Eau Claire, and Chicago. It boasts contributions from notable artists such as Kurt Vile, David Bazan, Bon Iver’s Sean Carey, Stars’ Amy Millan, the Weepies’ Deb Talan, and Frou Frou’s Guy Sigsworth.
In press materials, Margaret shared her emotional journey: “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.” Regarding the lead single “Everyone Around Me Dancing,” she described it as “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.”
Singing’s tracklist comprises 12 songs: 1. Everyone Around Me Dancing, 2. Cellular Reverse, 3. Alive Inside, 4. Moon Not Mine, 5. Rotten, 6. Rotten Outro, 7. Good Friend, 8. Phenomenon, 9. Ambient for Ichiko, 10. Phone Screen, 11. Guitar Duo, 12. E-Motion.
Supporting the release, Margaret will embark on a tour starting May 1 at Stone Circle Theatre in New York, NY, with stops in cities like Baltimore, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Nashville, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Pioneertown, Tucson, Santa Fe, and more in North America. The European leg includes Glasgow, Manchester, London, Utrecht, Paris, and Berlin in September.
