Gia Margaret – Singing (sunshine vinyl)

Every artist has to discover their voice. Gia Margaret didnt find herself until she lost hers. With a vocal injury that kept her from singing for years, she developed other musical languages, mastering the grammar of an intricate, homey form of ambient music pioneered by Ernest Hood and perfected by The Books. Now, her physical voice healed and her artistic voice honed, she comes full circle with Singing, her first vocal album since 2018s Theres Always Glimmer. Led by soft piano lines that fall like breath on glass, the music on Singing evidences the same jewelers sensitivity to detail that she developed in her silence.

There was a time when I really didnt know if I would sing again. So once I healed, there was a lot of internal pressure to come back strong, Margaret says. I didnt know who I was anymore. So it felt like beginning again, and reconnecting with these very old, old parts of myself. This feeling of intermixed alienation and rediscove