Gia Ford releases ‘I Guess My Time Has Come’ via Chrysalis Records and announces a six-date UK headline tour for October 2026
Gia Ford moves carefully. The Sheffield-born singer-songwriter, born Molly McCormick, has released three singles since her 2024 debut album Transparent Things on Chrysalis Records, and none of them have felt rushed. The latest, “I Guess My Time Has Come,” arrived April 22 and is the most fully realised of the three. It is also the announcement of an autumn UK headline tour, six dates across October that place her in intimate rooms from London to North Shields. For an artist whose voice carries this kind of precision and weight, intimate rooms are the right call.
The song itself is built around a single emotional movement: the moment before falling for someone, and then the moment of falling. “It’s about the moment of love’s impact,” Ford said. “A spectacular and exaggerated delineation of the first moment of attraction. There’s a feeling at the very beginning that the protagonist is a little glum and unmoored. Then it changes.” Clash Magazine described the track as beginning in “a space of self-doubt, before rising to become a soaring torrent of joy,” with Ford’s “icy vocal then melting into something soothing.” That is the whole architecture of the song in two lines. It earns the shift.
Three Singles Building Toward Something
“I Guess My Time Has Come“ is the third piece of new material Ford has released since Transparent Things. “God” came last October. “How Do I Reply?” followed in January 2026. Taken together, the three singles suggest a writer who is working steadily toward a second album without announcing it as such. whynow noted that the debut “made a strong case for her in 2024” and that the new single “suggests the follow-up will make an even stronger one.” That reads as measured praise from a publication that does not deal in overstatement.
Ford released her first material under Dirty Hit, the label also home to The 1975 and Wolf Alice, with the mixtapes Poster Boy in 2019 and Murder in the Dark in 2020, both produced by Fred Macpherson of Spector. The move to Chrysalis and the debut album represented a step up in scope without a change in the qualities that made those early records worth paying attention to: a voice that holds reticence and warmth in the same phrase, and writing that is precise without being cold.
October Tour Dates
The UK headline run opens October 20 at Camden Assembly in London before moving through Bristol’s The Croft, Leeds’ Oporto, Manchester’s Gullivers, Edinburgh’s VooDoo Speakeasy, and closing at Three Tanners Bank in North Shields on October 26. The venues are all the size where you can hear what a singer is actually doing. For Ford, that matters.
“I Guess My Time Has Come” is out now via Chrysalis Records. Tickets for the October tour are on sale now.
