Gia Margaret releases her new album, Singing, on April 24th via Jagjaguwar, ahead of the LP’s release, the artist has shared lead single/video, “Everyone Around Me Dancing,” as well as 2026 North American and EU/UK tour dates, kicking off May 1st in New York City.

“”Everyone Around Me Dancing” is a reflection on feeling isolated and the comfort found in that isolation,” explains Margaret. “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.”

With a vocal injury that kept her from singing for years, Margaret developed other musical languages, mastering the grammar of an intricate, homey form of ambient music pioneered by Ernest Hood and The Books. The two largely instrumental albums the Chicago pianist and composer made at that time—2020’s Mia Gargaret and 2023’s Romantic Piano—allowed her to lose herself in the emotional possibilities of pure sound. Now, her physical voice healed and her artistic voice honed, she comes full circle with Singing, her first vocal album since 2018’s There’s Always Glimmer.

“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, Amy Millan, Deb Talan, Kurt Vile, and Sean Carey. Margaret’s longtime collaborator Doug Saltzman plays on and co-produces 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, 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.”

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

Pre-order Singing by Gia Margaret HERE