Gin Wigmore Releases Fourth Studio Album ‘Beautiful Mess’
New Zealand music icon Gin Wigmore today shares her long-awaited fourth studio album, Beautiful Mess, available everywhere now.
Her first new album in eight years, Beautiful Mess is Gin’s most personal and powerful body of work to date. Capturing the contrast of life’s highs and lows, light and darkness, softness and grit, the record chronicles the deepest moments of her past decade – navigating love, loss, divorce, motherhood, and the complexities of rebuilding yourself – all while expanding her revered artistry into bold new territory.
The album also features new single Tip Of My Tongue, a track that balances intimate reflection with Gin’s unmistakable grit, all while exploring the tension between longing for change and accepting that growth can’t be forced.
“Tip Of My Tongue is a balancing act between feeling stuck in the mundane cycle of day-to-day life and hoping that love, with full unconditional acceptance, will overcome any feelings of mediocrity and complacency,” says Gin.
“It’s the bittersweet realization that a person can only change on their own accord, through self-belief and the desire to do so.”
Recorded largely during a whirlwind week in a remote Palm Springs desert studio alongside longtime collaborators Dave Goodison and Steven Padin, Beautiful Mess finds Wigmore at her most honest, adventurous and self-assured.
A tale told in two halves, the double-sided album explores the duality of beauty and chaos. Side A represents the Beautiful – tender, soft soundscapes rooted in country and Americana, inspired by trailblazing women like Lucinda Williams, Loretta Lynn, and Tammy Wynette. Side B reveals the Mess – raw, raucous rock anthems that rip the record open with unrestrained, full-throttle energy.
Beautiful Mess is the calm and the chaos, the light and the dark – existing not in opposition, but in harmony.
