Gia Ford has released a grandiose new single, ‘Earth Return’.
The rising alt-pop star recently released her debut album ‘Transparent Things’, which was recorded with Tony Berg — the producer behind Phoebe Bridgers’ ‘Stranger In The Alps‘ and ‘Punisher‘, as well as Tiny Habits’ recent debut album ‘All For Something’. Barely two months after it hit streaming, Ford has returned with the jazzy ‘Earth Return’.
“‘Earth Return’ was born out of the desire to be in your most loved place when you die,” Ford said in a press release. “For me, that’s around where my grandparents lived, in the Hope Valley in Derbyshire, whenever I’m there I feel at ease with everything; as if, I died there right then, it’d be the right thing, and that my spirit would be among my family and even the spirits of versions of me, me as a child, running around there.”
Check out ‘Earth Return’ below:
The release of the new single comes just before Ford heads out on a UK headline tour later this month – tickets are available here.
Gia Ford’s UK headline tour dates are:
NOVEMBER
Monday 11th – The Prince Albert, Brighton
Thursday 14th – St Matthias Church, London
Saturday 16th – Live at Leeds Festival, Leeds
Sunday 17th – YES (Basement), Manchester
Monday 18th – McChuills, Glasgow
Tuesday 19th – Sidney & Matilda, Sheffield
Ford recently spoke to NME about her new album where she said she was always “drawn to darkness”, exploring Wikipedia rabbit holes on serial killers in her youth. “I went to school in Cheshire but I never really felt like I was from there,” she said. “I always felt like I was observing another world, like I was sort of just drifting through it. My dad would drive me back over to Sheffield every weekend. Maybe it gave me two different perceptions. Maybe,” she adds, “a psychotherapist would have a nice time with me.”
Elsewhere in the feature, she said: “I’ve always been interested in psychology. I think that’s why outcasts were the focus [of the album] and why I was interested in serial killers as a teenager. What made them that way? The ones that I created characters for: they’re stalkers or murderers or something harrowing.”
