Gia Margaret – Everyone Around Me Dancing
Chicago-based artist Gia Margaret announces her new album Singing, out April 24 via Jagjaguwar, with lead single “Everyone Around Me Dancing”. It’s her first vocal album since 2018’s There’s Always Glimmer, marking her return after a vocal injury kept her from singing for years.
“Everyone Around Me Dancing” is delicate and solitary, built on soft piano lines that fall like breath on glass. The track finds Margaret watching a party from the wings, aware of isolation while finding comfort in it. “‘Everyone Around Me Dancing’ is a reflection on feeling isolated, and the comfort found in that isolation”, she 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”.
After her 2018 debut, Margaret lost her voice to illness and wound up recording two largely instrumental albums—2020’s Mia Gargaret and 2023’s Romantic Piano. Those records allowed her to lose herself in the emotional possibilities of pure sound, mastering an intricate form of ambient music pioneered by Ernest Hood and perfected by The Books.
“There was a time when I really didn’t know if I would sing again. So once I healed, there was a lot of internal pressure to come back strong”, Margaret says. “I didn’t know who I was anymore. So it felt like beginning again, and reconnecting with these very old, old parts of myself”.
Singing was recorded in London, Eau Claire, and Chicago in 2024 and 2025, alongside Frou Frou’s Guy Sigsworth, David Bazan, Stars’ Amy Millan, Deb Talan, Kurt Vile, and Bon Iver’s Sean Carey. Her longtime collaborator Doug Saltzman co-produced and played on much of the record.
“A lot of me meeting some of these collaborators (now my friends) fell completely into my lap”, she reflects. “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 artists “did lead me back to myself, because I realized I really do like producing”.
Margaret tours North America and Europe starting May 1 in New York, running through September 16 in Berlin.
Tracklist:
- Everyone Around Me Dancing
- Cellular Reverse
- Alive Inside
- Moon Not Mine
- Rotten
- Rotten Outro
- Good Friend
- Phenomenon
- Ambient for Ichiko
- Phone Screen
- Guitar Duo
- E-Motion
Tour Dates:
North America:
- May 1 – New York, NY – Stone Circle Theatre
- May 3 – Baltimore, MD – Current Space
- May 4 – Philadelphia, PA – Ethical Society
- May 7 – Atlanta, GA – Aisle 5
- May 8 – Nashville, TN – Blue Room
- May 12 – Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
- June 20 – Seattle, WA – Fremont Abbey
- June 21 – Portland, OR – Polaris Hall
- June 23 – San Francisco, CA – The Chapel
- June 26 – Los Angeles, CA – Sid The Cat Auditorium
- June 27 – Pioneertown, CA – Pappy & Harriet’s
- June 28 – Tucson, AZ – La Rosa
- June 30 – Santa Fe, NM – Meow Wolf
Europe:
- September 7 – Glasgow, UK – Oran Mor
- September 8 – Manchester, UK – Halle at St. Michael’s
- September 10 – London, UK – EartH Theatre
- September 11 – Utrecht, NL – Jacobikerk
- September 12 – Paris, FR – L’Archipel
- September 16 – Berlin, DE – Genezarethkirche
