When the Storm Breaks: Pisgah Finds Strength in the Ruin

Pisgah’s “Bend to Break” doesn’t just play, it unravels, surges, and rebuilds itself right in your chest. The Southern-born, London-based artist (Brittney Jenkins) folds her Americana roots into an alt-rock storm that feels both intimate and cinematic. It’s the kind of song that doesn’t ask for your attention; it claims it, slowly, like thunder rolling closer.

The guitars open like wind over water, shimmering and uneasy, before the drums crash in, a heartbeat turned defiant. There’s beauty in how Pisgah balances ache and release: every swell of sound feels earned, every silence feels like the space after letting something go. You can hear the ghosts of Ryan Adams’ melancholy and Aimee Mann’s precision in her phrasing, but Pisgah’s voice, raw, steady, quietly devastating, makes this song her own reckoning.

“Bend to Break” captures that moment when you stop holding the wreckage together and let it fall, only to realize there’s freedom in the fall. The production by Dan Duszynski keeps things grounded yet vast, giving each chord and drumbeat a lived-in honesty. Pisgah isn’t trying to impress—she’s telling the truth, sonically and emotionally.

It’s the sound of surrender turned into power, music for anyone who’s ever stood at the edge of something ending and felt the wind change.