Gigi Perez - At The Beach, In Every Life

Gigi Perez turned a viral moment into something far deeper on At The Beach, In Every Life, her 2025 debut album.

"Sailor Song" made her name, a tender, slightly feverish love song that spread across the internet and found a huge audience almost overnight. The album that followed proved she had far more to say. At its core is grief, specifically the loss of her sister, woven together with faith, queer love, guilt and the stubborn hope that holds them all together.

The sound is spare and intimate: acoustic guitar, close vocals and harmonies multi-tracked until they ache. "Sleeping" and "Normalcy" are among its most striking moments, raw and unguarded, while the title track "At The Beach, In Every Life" closes the album on a note of quiet, hard-won clarity.

Perez writes with a diarist's honesty and a poet's ear, and she never dresses up the difficult parts. Even the brightest melodies carry a shadow, which is exactly what makes them stick long after the needle lifts. There's no filler here, only songs that feel lived in, specific and necessary.

On vinyl, it's an album that asks for an unhurried listen, front to back, ideally with the lights low and nowhere else to be.