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Photo Credit: Melanie Lehmann
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releases new single
‘PAINT ME LIKE A WOMAN’
announces highly anticipated debut album
‘TRANSPARENT THINGS’
released on 13th September
VIA CHRYSALIS RECORDS
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Photo Credit: Melanie Lehmann
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“darkly atmospheric dream pop” – The Independent
“a bold talent” – CLASH
“music’s most exciting new storyteller” – Gay Times
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Alternative pop visionary Gia Ford has announced her highly anticipated debut album Transparent Things for release on 13th September via Chrysalis Records. Recorded in LA at the renowned Sound City Studios with legendary producer Tony Berg (known for his work on celebrated albums including Phoebe Bridgers’ Stranger in the Alps and Punisher), Transparent Things is an immersive collection that showcases how Gia is able to craft songs like no other artist of her generation.
For Gia, those figures on the fringes of society are by far the most fascinating. Her songs tell the stories of the downtrodden to the downright dangerous. And through them, we begin to hear familiar, uncomfortable truths about ourselves.
The theme of alienation runs through the album. “Most of the characters in these songs are outcasts, all with unique ways of feeling on the periphery, somehow,” Gia says. While each song operates in its own realm, their subject matters create a throughline of eccentricity that turns Transparent Things into an odyssey of outcasts. “Thematically it has a mythical quality, stemming from the repeated references to creatures, ghosts and undefined spirits. It’s a world of its own, where the characters have more in common than I initially thought was possible.”
Arguably no song better encapsulates the character of “the other” than new single ‘Paint Me Like a Woman’, released today. The song is from the perspective of a woman who feels herself morphing into the villain because of abuse and mistreatment at the hands of all the men in her life. Gia explains: “It is a look inside her mind as she feels herself drifting away from who she really is; allowing her rage to weave itself into the fabric of her being. It’s a comment on how we hurt each other, how we change each other, and a question: who gets punished for this terrible nature we have all, to varying degrees, embodied?”
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After supporting labelmate Marika Hackman and Francis of Delirium at shows earlier this year, Gia is excited to announce her first headline UK tour, kicking off this November. Tickets go on sale this Friday 14th June, full dates on website.
Before that, Gia will perform at Soundhood Hackney this Thursday and at festivals across the UK this summer including Latitude Festival, Green Man Festival and Rock N Roll Circus.
Gia’s haunting vocals, extraordinary gift for storytelling and her timeless sound, matched with her mesmerising stage presence, have seen her garner support from The Independent, Rolling Stone UK, DIY, NME, Clash, Dork, The Line of Best Fit, 6 Music and Gay Times, and tipped as a One to Watch by The Independent, The Sun and Record of the Day.
“PAINT ME LIKE A WOMAN” will be available on all major streaming platforms NOW…
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TRANSPARENT THINGS
Track Listing:
Poolside
Loveshot
Alligator
Buzzing On You
Falling In Love Again
Paint Me Like A Woman
Try Changing
Housewife Dreams Of America
Don’t Down Me Out
The Porcupine
Our Mutual Friend
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