Gia Ford – releases her new single ‘Shell’

Alt-pop singer-songwriter Gia Ford releases her new single, ‘Shell’, out now via Chrysalis Records. ‘Shell’ is the fifth single taken from her upcoming sophomore album, which is set for release on Friday 18th September. The new single is accompanied with a music video, and links to both the single stream and music video are available below.

On ‘Shell’, Gia Ford once again demonstrates why she is quickly becoming one of the most proficient singer-songwriters to emerge in recent years, with an ability to traverse a multitude of styles and genres from across the decades all the while remaining relevant to the contemporary day by stamping her own unmistakable, ‘Gia Ford’, sound across her tracks.
 
Speaking about ‘Shell’, Gia Ford said:

“‘Shell’ was the result of me moving out of my own way – the day we wrote it, I came in knowing I was going to accept whatever my hands told me to do and whatever my mind wanted to say. I was imagining Maria Wyeth from Joan Didion’s ‘Play It As It Lays’ for a visual counterpoint, but the first words had been my own winter melancholy reflections a few weeks before. It’s about that vacant sort of shadow that has followed me throughout my life and that’s why I suppose I gravitate towards those characters, even if we’re dissimilar in most other ways. The GoGo Penguin-esque drumming and the morbid low drones we took from later Scott Walker albums gives it that abnormality that defines it.”

Speaking about her upcoming album A Room Within A Room, Gia Ford said:

“This album is the manifestation of a desire to make something real, in a world and artistic landscape that increasingly favours convenience over craft.

My producer and I wanted each player to leave their mark on the album, to hear everyone’s personality in their performance; hear the room we recorded in, and the evidence of life within it. I miss hearing that stuff in recordings. This is the antithesis of that hyper-clean, optimised sound that is so abundant now. It’s almost optimisation in the opposite direction, making it clear that some people made this music together in a room somewhere.

A Room Within A Room is about the local atmospheres we own that hang around us. It’s about the private rooms within us, the expansiveness of our experience, the force of our inner worlds and imaginations. It’s also about the importance of process, and overall, the significance of human creation.”

Gia Ford recently announced that she will embark on a UK tour which will take place in October 2026. The tour will see Gia play a headline show at London’s Barfly on Tuesday 20th October, as well as headline shows in Bristol, Leeds, Manchester, Edinburgh, and North Shields. Full tour dates can be found below and tickets can be purchased HERE.

A Room Within A Room Tracklisting
 
Liberty
Diamonds Coming Down
At Least For Now
Standing Beneath The Dream
Cathy
A Spy In The House Of Love
God
Shell
I Guess My Time Has Come
How Do I Reply?
Versions Of You

A ROOM WITHIN A ROOM