{"product_id":"4582561407321","title":"Gia Margaret - There's Always Glimmer - Japan CD","description":"\u003cp\u003eCredits:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGia Margaret\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChicago-based singer-songwriter and producer GiaMargaret’s 2018 debut album, *There’s Always Glimmer*, served as both her starting point and a pivotal work that shaped her subsequent career. The album features 12 tracks and runs approximately 34 minutes. Handling all songwriting, composition, performance, and production herself, and primarily recorded and mixed in collaboration with Nicholas Papaleo, this album became an exceptionally beautiful debut that blends quiet intimacy with a delicate sense of sound.\n\nRegarding this album, Pitchfork described her music as having a lullaby-like atmosphere dubbed “sleeprock,” introducing it as a work where folk serves as the foundation, blending with ambient and shoegaze textures and subtle electronic embellishments. The FADER also positions *There’s Always Glimmer* as a “bittersweet collection of folk songs” with electronic tremors seeping into its contours. The acoustic warmth and the hazy, dreamlike sound—the fact that both coexist so naturally is the album’s greatest charm.\n\n\"Groceries,\" the album’s opening track, succinctly captures this worldview. As Pitchfork notes, the song quietly brings to light the small salvations of daily life through a fragile confession and the low, rumbling resonance of the synth. The word \"glimmer,\" which also appears in the title, is likely the very faint light that runs through the entire work. In the following tracks—\"Birthday,\" \"Wayne,\" and \"West\"—the aftereffects of heartbreak, anxiety, and loss are depicted with subtlety. Yet these emotions are never presented as grand dramas; instead, they linger gently in the listener’s heart through whispering vocals and soft arrangements.\n\nThe brilliance of this album lies not in the intense release of emotion, but in its ability to convey profound feelings through restraint. While depicting sadness and uncertainty, a gentle light—one that is not merely despair—shines through. In that sense, *There’s Always Glimmer* is an album that should be listened to as a quiet singer-songwriter work in the tradition of bedroom folk, ambient pop, and post-slowcore, and it also serves as the origin of Gia Margaret’s sensibility, leading on to her later album *MiaGargaret*.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracklisting:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1.Groceries\u003cbr\u003e2.Birthday\u003cbr\u003e3.Figures\u003cbr\u003e4.Smoke\u003cbr\u003e5.Goodnight\u003cbr\u003e6.In Normal Ways\u003cbr\u003e7.Looking\u003cbr\u003e8.For Flora\u003cbr\u003e9.Sugar\u003cbr\u003e10.Exist\u003cbr\u003e11.Wayne\u003cbr\u003e12.West\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Plancha","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52608220135713,"sku":"4582561407321","price":16.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0568\/8482\/2076\/files\/4582561407321.jpg?v=1777226031","url":"https:\/\/cdsvinyljapan.com\/en-pt\/products\/4582561407321","provider":"CDs Vinyl Japan Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}