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Gigi Perez Makes Her Mark With Songs of Loss and Lust on ‘At the Beach, in Every Life’: Album Review
Gigi Perez channels love, loss and longing into her debut full-length, 'At the Beach, in Every Life,' including her breakthrough hit 'Sailor Song.'
Gigi Perez is a 25-year-old Cuban-American singer-songwriter who specializes in the kind of yearning, heartspilling songs that have passionate fans singing along tearfully at her shows (we’ve seen it happen), and a voice that perfectly suits them: A striking alto that is unexpectedly deep for a female singer but, even more unusually, recalls Jeff Buckley and Radiohead’s Thom Yorke when she swoops up into higher registers. Her backstory is filled with a succession of tragedies and triumphs: An older sister who passed away early in the pandemic — and whose voicemails are sprinkled throughout this album — followed by a painful breakup, and then a viral hit that resulted in major-label deal, an EP (“How to Catch a Falling Knife”), dates opening for Coldplay and Noah Cyrus… and then being dropped from that major label. It’s not a conventional debut album by any stretch: The songs, written and produced by Perez with one or two collaborators (primarily her friends Noah Weinman and Aidan Hobb), are driven almost entirely by stacked multitracked vocals and massed acoustic guitars, with occasional keyboards or string embellishments and very little percussion.
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