Gia Margaret – Singing Album Review (AOTM July)

Gia Margaret’s Singing is an album where singing itself feels especially meaningful. Not only because of the voice, techniques or amount of singing, but because of the story behind that singing.

Gia Margaret is a Chicago-based artist, singer-songwriter, pianist and composer whose music has long moved somewhere between indie folk, ambient music, dreamlike pop and quiet experimentation. Her music has never felt like it is trying to force an impression. Instead, it builds its own small world, one that the listener can step into when they are ready to slow down.

In her story, the voice has played a particularly important role. After her debut album, There’s Always Glimmer, Gia lost her voice for an extended period due to a vocal injury. For a singer-songwriter, that must be a truly devastating situation. But instead of disappearing from making music, she moved for a while into a different kind of expression. She created more ambient and more instrumental music, where feeling was carried more by instruments, space, textures and small details than by words or singing.

Against this background, Singing feels like a truly beautiful return. There is no grand declaration of comeback on the album, no dramatic gesture. Everything happens softly and calmly. That is exactly what makes the album so beautiful. There is something deeply close and comforting in Gia Margaret’s voice. It is not a showy voice in the sense that it is constantly trying to prove what it can do. Instead, its beauty lies in its fragility, warmth and in the way it settles so naturally into the centre of the music.

Singing is an extremely successful album in terms of atmosphere. There is a lot of air and space in the music. The pianos, soft backgrounds, delicate melodies and Gia’s voice form a whole that is in no hurry to get anywhere. The album does not try to grab the listener quickly. It works more slowly. It grows around you and becomes stronger the more you sink into it.

Singing is not an album that shouts for attention. It does not need to. Its power lies in the way it dares to be calm, sensitive and beautiful without becoming boring or too cautious. This is an album to return to when you want music to offer presence rather than grand gestures.

Gia Margaret has made an album that feels quiet but strong. Singing is a beautiful, warm and deeply atmospheric work. Most of all, it reminds us how much power there can be in a voice that is not trying to sound big, but honest.

Release Date: April 24, 2026
Gia Margaret – Singing
Album of the Month by Cuberat