“This album is the manifestation of a desire to make something real": Gia Ford to return with new album, A Room Within A Room

A Room Within A Room is a follow-up to 2024's Transparent Things, with "At Least For Now" following previous album reveals “I Guess My Time Has Come”, “How Do I Reply?” and “God”. Inspired by poet Anne Sexton, the track carries a 1970s aesthetic. As Ford explains, "It's about the tumult of one's feelings; about wanting to be here one moment, and gone the next. It's about the futility of our individual selves in the face of where we are; it's about our predicament. My favourite song of my own.”

The album came together as as a rejection of what Ford describes as “that hyper-clean, optimised sound that is so abundant now”, as she worked alongside her producer to prioritise live takes and individual personality in each performance.

Speaking about A Room Within A Room, she explains: “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.”

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A Room Within A Room tracklist