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Sidney Gish (born March 18, 1997) is an American Indie music singer-songwriter. She has self-released two albums, Ed Buys Houses (2016) and No Dogs Allowed (2017). She performs and records her music solo.
Gish grew up in New Jersey but moved to Boston to study the music industry at Northeastern University. She began releasing music on Bandcamp in 2015. Her first full album, Ed Buys Houses, received local coverage, and she began performing concerts in Boston. Her second album, No Dogs Allowed, became popular on the internet and received positive critical reception, being named Album of the Year at the 2018 Boston Music Awards. She performed in New York City, where she attended an internship, and went on a national tour with Camp Cope and Petal. She opened for Mitski the same year and released a split single with Cavetown in 2019. In 2023, she released the single "Filming School" through the Sub Pop Singles Club, and she supported tours by the Beths and Jeff Rosenstock.
Gish is bisexual. She has perfect pitch, which she has said contributes to her melodic composition.
Gish's first full album, Ed Buys Houses, was self-released on Bandcamp in December 2016. She edited the album in GarageBand and designed the cover in Photoshop, and the title came from a sign she saw in her hometown. The album received coverage in local publications, including Allston Pudding and DigBoston. Gish began performing concerts at venues in Boston through 2017.
In 2018, Gish began a semester-long internship in the A&R department of Island Records in Manhattan, which involved finding new musicians. The same week, a song by her was featured by Spotify in its "New Music Friday" playlist, a coincidence that surprised her boss and was described by Gish as "extremely meta". She performed several shows in New York until the end of her internship. She then went on her first national tour, opening for Camp Cope and Petal. She joined the booking agency Agency for the Performing Arts.
Gish's fame increased in 2018 when she opened for Mitski in six shows in New England. She was listed as one of Stereogum Best New Artists of 2018. That December, she covered a song by the Magnetic Fields as part of a tribute album for the band's 69 Love Songs. In March 2019, she performed at South by Southwest and was featured on NPR Music's Austin 100. The same month, she released a cover of Jackson Browne's "Somebody's Baby" as part of a Split album in Cavetown's Animal Kingdom series. She released a music video for "Sin Triangle", a track on No Dogs Allowed, the following May. She and Orla Gartland supported Cavetown's tour in the UK and Ireland later that year. She recorded a duet with Cheekface, titled "Election Day", on its 2022 album Too Much to Ask.
In February 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 a tour with Jeff Rosenstock in late 2023, with some shows delayed until 2024 after Rosenstock contracted COVID-19. The indie pop band Grumpy featured Gish, along with Precious Human, in the January 2025 song "Lonesome Ride". The band said Gish was a major influence on its work.
Allston Pudding Christine Varriale described Gish's music as "humorous pop that millennials can understand but that sounds timeless". Pitchfork Nina Corcoran compared her "catchy, oddball songs" to Frankie Cosmos and Car Seat Headrest. WBUR-FM's Amelia Mason described her songs 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.
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