Gia Margaret has announced a new album titled Singing. It arrives on April 24 via Jagjaguwar. It’s led by the delicate, staticky single ‘Everyone Around Me Dancing’, which Margaret describes 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.” Check it out along with the album artwork and tracklist below.
The title of the new record is a potent one. Singing will follow 2023’s Romantic Piano, the second instrumental record Margaret made after a vocal injury that kept her from singing for years. “There was a time when I really didn’t know if I would sing again,” Margaret explained. “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 album was tracked in London, Eau Claire, and Chicago in 2024 and 2025, alongside Frou Frou’s Guy Sigsworth, David Bazan, Amy Millan, Deb Talan, Kurt Vile, and Sean Carey. Margaret’s longtime collaborator Doug Saltzman co-produced in addition to playing on much of the record. “A lot of me meeting some of these collaborators (now my friends) fell completely into my lap,” Margaret commented. “Almost as if they could hear something in me that I’m certain was influenced by them in the first place.” But opening her music to other musicians “did lead me back to myself, because I realized I really do like producing. I felt like I was missing out by not exploring those things on my own.”
Singing Cover Artwork:
Singing Tracklist:
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
