Nashville-based progressive art-rock trio Gentry Blue made a bold entrance with the release of their debut album, Fragments, this September 6. The trio—frontwoman Lydia Gentry-Debonis, alongside multi-instrumentalists Brendan Gentry-Debonis and Sean Jannay—crafted a strong and empowering album in bustling shades of classic and alt-rock.
The opening track, “Eclipse,” is an orchestral marvel. Building from a slow, haunting start, the song crescendos into a cinematic climax with electric violin loops, evoking the feeling of watching an eclipse. The tonal shifts surge to an urgent high pitch as all the waves of sound converge and mimic the slow engulfing of the sun.
With bustling drums and vibrant guitar melodies, “What Lies on the Other Side” explores the loss of self-identity as it is scattered into a symbolic blackhole of burnout. Lydia’s vocals come low and deep, then grow more animated and frustrated as she sings, “I have to find out who I was / Before I get sucked back into oblivion.”
The title track “Fragments” grapples with identity and fragmentation as it showcases a dynamic and addictive moodiness with groovy, engaging hooks. The chorus hits hard with driving guitars and thumping drums, only to quickly fall back into quiet reflection. As the track reaches its climax, the guitars snarl and drums thunder before falling back again, leaving a hypnotic echo.
“Lose No Sleep” stands out with bustling instrumentals, lively delivery, and infectious hooks, which makes it a fun and rebellious anthem. The lyrics, full of dark humor, tell the story of someone content in something like a psychic ward, no matter how dire it seems from the outside. However, the line, “You thought I was crazy / Honey, maybe you were right / But it was you that made me lose my mind,” shows how the narrator is just fully committed to the healing process.
Listen to Gentry Blue’s Fragments and discover the unraveling of new rockstars on the horizon.
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Photo credits: Taylor Rose, Lucky Halfspeed
Review by: Naomi Joan