{"id":794076,"date":"2019-03-23T09:23:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-23T15:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=812441"},"modified":"2019-03-23T09:23:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-23T15:23:57","slug":"hear-ioanna-gikas-dreamy-new-song-swan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/hear-ioanna-gikas-dreamy-new-song-swan\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Ioanna Gika\u2019s Dreamy New Song \u2018Swan\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/GettyImages-175375538.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Ioanna Gika has shared her ethereal new single \u201cSwan\u201d ahead of the release of her debut solo album <em>Thalassa<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>On her new song, the Greek-American singer channels the dreamy melodies of Mazzy Star with bursts of shimmering synths and Gika\u2019s haunting vocals. Gika described \u201cSwan\u201d as one of the \u201cmost accessible and heartbreaking moments\u201d on the album.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Swan\u2019 is about the sinking feeling when you sense a relationship is coming to an end, but you are powerless to stop it,\u201d Gika explains in a statement. \u201cYou exist in this nebulous state, and can sense the change, but are met with silence. I had this feeling right before my long-term relationship ended, I had this feeling when my dad was sick but doctors weren\u2019t getting back to me with answers. Hearing the truth is harsh, but silence, when you\u2019re looking for answers, is a suffocating purgatory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gika, who is also known as one-half of indie-rock duo Io Echo, previously released the tension-filled lead single \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/song-you-need-to-know-ioanna-gika-roseate-744859\/\">Roseate<\/a>\u201d last fall; the track was named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/song-you-need-to-know-ioanna-gika-roseate-744859\/\">one of <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s Songs You Need to Know<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thalassa<\/em> will be released on April 5th via Sargent House. This spring, Gika is set to open for Garbage on that band\u2019s tour across the U.S. in May.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/ioanna-gika-new-song-swan-812441\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ioanna Gika has shared her ethereal new single \u201cSwan\u201d ahead of the release of her debut solo album Thalassa. On her new song, the Greek-American singer channels the dreamy melodies of Mazzy Star with bursts of shimmering synths and Gika\u2019s haunting vocals. Gika described \u201cSwan\u201d as one of the \u201cmost accessible and heartbreaking moments\u201d on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-794076","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 23:47:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=794076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}