If you were on social media in 2023, you couldn’t scroll very long without hearing Gia Margaret ’s delicate, spare “ Hinoki Wood .” A little bit Brian Eno , a little bit Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru , that melancholic piano melody backgrounded wistful beach B-roll and day-in-my-lifes, a bittersweet evocation whose virality began with a dog meme . Three years later, a major shift: Singing , like its title would suggest, is an on-the-nose singer-songwriter record in more ways than one. Its song structures are mostly conventional and confessional, melodies that wear an easy groove in your ear. The less obvious part is the erstwhile ambient instrumentalist’s return to her own voice. A years-long vocal cord injury and recovery process pushed her toward the previous records’ ambience without much choice, and this LP is the first return since 2018’s There’s Always Glimmer to what she calls an “old part” of herself, expressive and lyrical.…