Gia Margaret is back. The Chicago musician last released a record in 2023 with the mesmeric Romantic Piano, and now she’s announcing the succinctly titled followup Singing, so named because it marks her recovery from a vocal injury that kept her from singing for years. The pensive, radiant lead single “Everyone Around Me Dancing” is out today.
“‘Everyone Around Me Dancing’ is a reflection on feeling isolated and the comfort found in that isolation,” Margaret explains. “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 was recorded in London, Eau Claire, and Chicago in 2024 and 2025 with Frou Frou’s Guy Sigsworth, David Bazan, Amy Millan, Deb Talan, Kurt Vile, and Sean Carey. Her frequent collaborator Doug Saltzman also plays on and co-produces much of the LP. Watch the music video for “Everyone Around Me Dancing” below.
TRACKLIST:
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”
TOUR DATES:
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, UK @ Oran Mor
09/08 – Manchester, UK @ Halle at St. Michael’s
09/10 – London, UK @ EartH Theatre
09/11 – Utrecht, NL @ Jacobikerk
09/12 – Paris, FR @ L’Archipel
09/16 – Berlin, DE @ Genezarethkirche
Singing is out 4/24 via Jagjaguwar. Pre-order it here.
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