Pisgah releases brand new LP ‘Faultlines’

London-based singer-songwriter Brittney Jenkins, known artistically as Pisgah, stands as an original presence within the worlds of alternative rock and Americana. Originally hailing from the American South, her music pairs the emotive storytelling traditions of her origins with the edge of her adopted home in the UK. Since moving to London in 2015, she’s been crafting music that lands between Southern melancholy and the moody atmospherics of artists such as Aimee Mann, Emma Ruth Rundle and The Cure.

Her sound is truly cinematic in scale but intimate enough to host both heartbreak and healing within its engrossing aesthetic. Pisgah’s musical identity first began to take shape when Brittney taught herself guitar and began writing songs shortly after her move to London. That period of creativity resulted in her 2022 debut album Call Louder for Me When You Call, an emotionally compelling and poetic release that marked her arrival as a songwriter capable of transforming grief and fragility into something widely relatable. The record drew from personal and collective experiences including family tragedies, loss and the strife of modern existence, crafting meaning from pain with a sense of empathy.

After a brief hiatus, Pisgah returned this year revitalised with new material, sharing a trio of well-reveived singles to open up a new chapter in her musical story. Now she crystallises her return with the release of her brand new sophomore album titled Faultlines, an outing that feels like a debut in spirit, a point of convergence where Pisgah’s sound and vision fully align. The album explores the emotional fractures that have shaped her life, framing them as opportunities for transformation across its eight tracks.

“The Tower shows a structure struck by lightning, people falling into the night sky—total catastrophe,” she says, referencing her background as a tarot practitioner. “But it’s also the moment when everything that no longer serves you is stripped away. What’s left is the chance to build something real.” Faultlines, ultimately, exists in that space between breakdown and revelation as well as ruin and renewal.

Recorded in her home studio and mixed and mastered by Austin-based producer Dan Duszynski, the album draws influence from the poetic Americana of Jason Molina and Sun Kil Moon, the incisive alternative rock of Aimee Mann and Laura Stevenson and the brooding soundscapes of Chelsea Wolfe and Emma Ruth Rundle. Visually and conceptually, Pisgah’s art history background lends the record a cinematic quality, referencing the eerie stillness of Gregory Crewdson’s photography, Francesca Woodman’s spectral self-portraits and the haunting temporal meditations of William Christenberry.

The record opens with the lead single “Cumulonimbus,” a dreamy musical dissection generational trauma where airy guitar lines and subtle rhythmic textures swirl beneath Pisgah’s delicate vocals, creating a hypnotic balance between weight and levity. “Favor” shifts gears with a grunge-inflected rhythm and warm melodic layering, casting a delicate rock scene that flows with the soft patter of drums, clean guitar textures and alluring vocal leads.

“Bone to Pick” arrives with intricate guitar lines and the steady pulse of kick as her voice hovers above to forge a tender musical experience that captures her poignant songwriting in an arrangement that gradually builds throughout. Tracks like “Splintering” sees Pisgah lean into a moodier soundscape where the flicker of buzzy tones flows into an atmospheric sound of hazy vocal lines and stripped back instrumentation.

With “Bend to Break,” she distils the album’s central tension, walking along the fine line between collapse and liberation in an emotional balancing act which out across shifting waves of jangling guitars, rolling drums and Pisgah’s arresting voice. Closing the album with “Song for Jason (Cold Rain),” the sparse plucks of twanging guitar notes forms an absorbing Americana-focused scene to set up an enveloping finale that progresses with aching vocals and immersive instrumental layers. With Faultlines, Pisgah delivers her most complete artistic statement yet via an album that invites listeners to find strength in their own fractures, rebuilding a story piece by piece, in the light of renewal.

Listen to Faultlines below