Alternative pop visionary Gia Ford has released her highly-anticipated debut album Transparent Things via Chrysalis Records. The album features the recent singles "Try Changing”, ”Poolside”, “Paint Me Like a Woman" and the album track "Housewife Dreams of America”.
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.”
The album has received rapturous critical acclaim, with DORK describing the record as “a gallery of carefully crafted portraits – outsiders from serial killers to lonely housewives each existing in a world where fact and fiction blur.” Furthermore, Wonderland quotes that the album is “everything one could hope for from a debut project. With honest, introspective, and intricate lyricism with a one-of-a-kind sonic landscape that weaves together live tracks and 70s influences”.
Gia’s haunting vocals, extraordinary gift for storytelling and her timeless sound, matched with her mesmerising stage presence, have seen her garner support from Sir Elton John on his Apple Music ‘Rocket Hour’ show, 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. Gia was recently nominated for an AIM Independent Music Award for ‘Best Independent Video’ for her previous single ‘Poolside’.
Transparent Things Tracklist:
Poolside
Loveshot
Alligator
Buzzing On You
Falling In Love Again
Paint Me Like A Woman
Try Changing
Housewife Dreams Of America
Don’t Drown Me Out
The Porcupine
Our Mutual Friend
