# Sidney Gish

Sidney Gish (born March 18, 1997) is an American singer-songwriter. She has released two albums, Ed Buys Houses and No Dogs Allowed.

## Early and personal life

Sidney Gish was born on March 18, 1997, and grew up in a suburb in New Jersey. She began composing songs in middle and high school and sang in her school choir. Before focusing on her music, she attempted to go viral on Tumblr; she went viral in 2016 for creating doodles that her mother embroidered. She attended Northeastern University in Boston, where she studied the music industry, from 2015 to 2020. She was in the college's female a capella group as a beatboxer.
Gish is bisexual. She has perfect pitch, which she has said contributes to her melodic composition.

## Career
### Early work and Ed Buys Houses

Gish started her career by uploading music on Bandcamp. Her first release was "don't call on me" in 2015, followed by "dummy parade" in 2016, but she did not consider these as albums. She released an EP, "Merry Crisis", during the winter break of her first year of college.
Gish's first full album, Ed Buys Houses, was self-released on Bandcamp in December 2016. The album's title came from a sign Gish saw in New Jersey. It received coverage in local publications including Allston Pudding and DigBoston. She began performing concerts at venues in Boston through 2017. The album was featured by Spotify in its "New Music Friday" playlist. The same week, Gish began a semester-long internship in the A&R department of Island Records in Manhattan, which involved finding new musicians, a coincidence that surprised her boss and was described by Gish as "extremely meta".

### No Dogs Allowed and Filming School

Her second album, No Dogs Allowed, was self-released on Bandcamp on December 31, 2017. It received a 7.7 rating on Pitchfork and a positive review by The Fader. Gish was covered in NPR Music's Slingshot, a series about new musicians. No Dogs Allowed won Album of the Year at the 2018 Boston Music Awards. Gish performed several shows in New York until the end of her internship. She then went on a national tour with Camp Cope and Petal.
Following the moderate internet success and media coverage of No Dogs Allowed, Gish joined the booking agency Agency for the Performing Arts. She opened for the New England shows in the 2018 tour by Mitski, which contributed to Gish's fame. In March 2019, she performed at South by Southwest and was featured on NPR Music's Austin 100. She was listed as one of Stereogum's Best New Artists of 2018. In 2019, she released a cover of "Somebody's Baby" by Jackson Browne as part of a split single in Cavetown's Animal Kingdom series.
In 2023, Gish released two new songs, "Filming School" and "MFSOTSOTR", through the Sub Pop Singles Club. The same year, she toured with The Beths in North America. She also went on to tour with Jeff Rosenstock later in the fall of 2023. The indie pop band Grumpy featured Gish, along with Precious Human, in the January 2025 song "Lonesome Ride". The band cited Gish as an influence.

## Style

Gish's music has been classified as indie rock, indie pop, and bedroom pop. She has described her composition process as "Frankensteining" melodies and lyrics that develop separately. She records her music solo, playing electric guitar, percussion, piano, ukulele, and melodica, as well as MIDI instruments. She produced her early music using the mobile app VoiceJam, before switching to Logic Pro by 2018. In live shows, she uses a loop pedal to perform solo. She has cited influences including Regina Spektor, Vampire Weekend, and of Montreal.
Allston Pudding's Christine Varriale described Gish's music as "humorous pop that millennials can understand but that sounds timeless". Pitchfork's Nina Corcoran described her works as "catchy, oddball songs", comparing her to Frankie Cosmos and Car Seat Headrest. WBUR-FM described them as "mundane (or obscure) meanderings peppered by puns and brief, dazzling extrapolations". It also compared her to Car Seat Headrest, who similarly began his career on Bandcamp.

## Discography
### Studio albums

| Title | Album details |
| Ed Buys Houses | Released: December 29, 2016 Label: self-released Format: Digital download |
| No Dogs Allowed | Released: December 31, 2017 Label: self-released Format: Digital download |

### Singles

| Title | Album details |
| Filming School | Released : February 8, 2023 Label : Sub Pop Records Format : Digital download |

### Bandcamp exclusives

* don't call on me (2015)
* Merry Crisis EP (2016)
* dummy parade (2016)

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Organization | Award | Work | Result |
| 2018 | Boston Music Awards | Album of the Year | "No Dogs Allowed" | Won |
| 2018 | Boston Music Awards | Unsigned Artist of the Year | Herself | Nominated |
| 2018 | Boston Music Awards | Alt/Indie Artist of the Year | Herself | Nominated |
| 2018 | Boston Music Awards | Song of the Year | "Not but for You, Bunny" | Nominated |
| 2019 | Boston Music Awards | Singer Songwriter of the Year | Herself | Won |
| 2019 | Boston Music Awards | Alt/Indie Artist of the Year | Herself | Nominated |
| 2019 | Boston Music Awards | Song of the Year | "I'm So Sorry" (as featured artist) | Nominated |