Gia Margaret announces new LP ‘Singing’ & tour, shares “Everyone Around Me Dancing”

Gia Margaret (photo by Rachel Winslow)

Chicago-based ambient artist Gia Margaret announced a new album, Singing, due out April 24 via Jagjaguwar. It’s her first vocal album since 2018’s There’s Always Glimmer, and comes after she released two mostly instrumental albums while healing from a vocal injury. “There was a time when I really didn’t know if I would sing again,” she says. “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.”

Margaret recorded Singing in London with Guy Sigsworth (Frou Frou), David Bazan, Amy Millan, Deb Talan, Kurt Vile, Sean Carey, and her longtime collaborator Doug Saltzman. “A lot of me meeting some of these collaborators (now my friends) fell completely into my lap,” she says. “Almost as if they could hear something in me that I’m certain was influenced by them in the first place.” But, as she says, all of her attempts to open her music to other artists “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.”

The lead single is “Everyone Around Me Dancing,” which is lush with gentle soundscapes. Watch the video, directed by Catherine LoMedico, below.

Margaret will be on from May through September, starting with an NYC show at Stone Circle Theatre on May 1. See all dates below.

GIA MARGARET – 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

GIA MARGARET: 2026 TOUR DATES
Fri. May 1 – New York, NY @ Stone Circle Theatre
Sun. May 3 – Baltimore, MD @ Current Space
Mon. May 4 – Philadelphia, PA @ Ethical Society
Thu. May 7 – Atlanta, GA @ Aisle 5
Fri. May 8 – Nashville, TN @ Blue Room
Tue. May 12 – Chicago, IL @ Thalia Hall
Sat. June 20 – Seattle, WA @ Fremont Abbey
Sun. June 21 – Portland, OR @ Polaris Hall
Tue. June 23 – San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel
Fri. June 26 – Los Angeles, CA @ Sid The Cat Auditorium
Sat. June 27 – Pioneertown, CA @ Pappy & Harriet’s
Sun. June 28 – Tucson, AZ @ La Rosa
Tue. June 30 – Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf
Mon. Sep. 7 – Glasgow, UK @ Oran Mor
Tue. Sep. 8 – Manchester, UK @ Halle at St. Michael’s
Thu. Sep. 10 – London, UK @ EartH Theatre
Fri. Sep. 11 – Utrecht, NL @ Jacobikerk
Sat. Sep. 12 – Paris, FR @ L’Archipel
Wed. Sep. 16 – Berlin, DE @ Genezarethkirche