GIYA’s sound comes directly from her home city of London. In and amongst the bustling streets and incredible sights, music is well and truly in the air. From exciting up and coming artists, to established legends like Arlo Parks, Olivia Dean and Amy Winehouse, the city is littered with inspiration – and GIYA has lapped it all up.
Her latest offering ‘foggy hearts,’ is presented with an emotional message. You can hear her inspirations in her voice as she binds them together, resulting in a silky smooth, raw and impactful vocal line that has become a staple to her sound. A melancholy guitar provides the perfect backdrop as GIYA sings about lives not lived, and peers who had lost their way.
Speaking about the release she says: “I wrote it after one of those moments where you look up, and everyone around you is either drinking themselves to death, or finding some other way to distract themselves. It felt like everyone was a little bit lost. It seems to be a common theme among young people today, and hope for the future sometimes seems like a pointless exercise but for me foggy hearts at its core, though, it’s a hopeful song.”
“The recording process for this song with Scoop Monty, an amazing producer down in Brighton, was such a rewarding one and one of the first times that I have had in the studio where the song almost adopts more of the message through the process. We took a lot of care over it, gave it some real time and love and I hope people can feel that”
GIYA is excited to be announcing her new EP ‘Odd Fish,’ and with ‘foggy hearts’ being the lead single, we think this places the benchmark for the rest of the EP. She says: “It just felt like the right song to introduce the new EP. A gut feeling. It’s a sad song, but it also reminds me of some good times I’ve had with friends over the last few years. There are nostalgic memories attached to it. It’s the first song I wrote after moving to Brighton, so it feels like a fresh start.”
