Pre-Order Item. Release Date Subject to Change.Label: Chrysalis FrontlineRelease Date: 18th September Gia Ford's second album sounds like a proper studio record, not the kind where people plug into a computer but with that original sensibility of capturing the instruments, the players and the person fronting live but in a meticulous way that can only be made in the studio. The result is a record that evokes the era's of Dusty Springfield or the epic recording of a Bond theme or the late 60s early 70s eras where rock musicians started becoming studio nerds. Gia's vocals are wonderfully smokey on this record. "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."
