Pyrotechnicolorย feels like the sound of embers finally being given oxygen. Mary Jenningsโ six-track EP gathers songs written over the span of a decade and lets them burn together, not as leftovers from past eras but as a fully formed emotional reckoning. It turns out intimate yet cinematic, personal yet eerily reflective of a fractured, tense world. Fire is the emotional engine, carrying collapse, rebirth, and the honesty you arrive at only after everything comfortable has already burned away.
The EP opens with โPyrotechnicolor,โ and it immediately pulls you into its haze. Fragmented audio effects crackle through an ambient soundscape as Jennings sings with a thick, grounded voice, reflective and wide-eyed. She sings like sheโs standing still while the world shifts around her. The production slowly swells and spreads, beats rattling gently underneath as she admits to lying awake with her eyes open night after night. By the time her voice lifts toward the end, itโs intense, as it leaves you suspended in its afterimage.
Things turn more intimate on โSmolders,โ where naked guitar riffs flicker softly over a slow pumping heart. Jennings sings low and restrained at first, lowly uttering, โmy heart smolders over you,โ before the pain creeps in. As the song grows, so does her voice, thickening with emotion as she confesses that even hearing his name still hurts. Ethereal backing vocals and swelling strings arrive late, like a wave sheโs been bracing for all along, amplifying the ache.
By the time โTake a Numberโ arrives, the EP leans fully into its darker theatrical side. Orchestral swells rise behind her as haunting backing vocals chant, โI canโt hear your voice inside.โ Jennings sings agonizingly, โtake a deep breath, the shipโs going under,โ the line landing heavy.
Pyrotechnicolorย commands attention, glowing with authenticity, vulnerability, and the power of survival after the flames.
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Review by: Naomi Joan