Every artist has to discover their voice. Gia Margaret didn’t find herself until she lost hers. With a vocal injury that kept her from singing for years, she honed a new, instrumental approach on her last two albums, 2020’s Mia Gargaret and 2023’s Romantic Piano. On these evocative records, she developed a unique language without using her voice, crafting timeless, intricate melodies – most notably Romantic Piano‘s Hinoki Wood, which went viral on TikTok, peaking at #2 on the TikTok Billboard charts.
Now, her physical voice healed and her artistic voice honed, she comes full circle with Singing, her first vocal album since 2018’s There’s Always Glimmer. Led by soft piano lines that fall like breath on glass, the music on Singing evidences the same jeweler’s sensitivity to detail that she developed in her silence.
Recorded between London, Eau Claire (Wisconsin) and Gia’s hometown of Chicago, with an all-star cast of collaborators including Guy Sigsworth (Frou Frou), Kurt Vile, Sean Carey, ILĀ, Amy Millan (Broken Social Scene), Sean Carey, David Bazan, Doug Saltzman, Deb Talan (The Weepies) and more, the album applies the lessons of speechlessness—the ways we communicate without communicating, the way formless sound can cut to the heart of things like a scalpel—to Gia’s own artistic voice.
“the sort of album that one fires up out of necessity, when you need to get your heartbeat back to a resting state.” – Stereogum (on Romantic Piano)
“Gia Margaret is responsible for some of the most arrestingly beautiful and delicate music of recent years—and, to our relief, she has more of it on the way.” – Flood
“Romantic Piano is an endless reliquary of devotion, self-kindness and wonder; an impressive, beautiful third act for one of our most-daring and interesting songwriters.” – Paste
Gia Margaret - Good Friend
Gia Margaret - Everyone Around Me Dancing
Gia Margaret - Hinoki Wood
Gia Margaret - apathy