Hannah Delynn – Trust Fall (self-released, 2025)
When an artist releases a debut full-length album, it often feels like the opening of a long-sealed journal. Hannah Delynn independently released her debut full-length album, Trust Fall, on September 5, 2025. The Nashville-based vocalist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist presents 11 original songs shaped by a period of loss, resilience, and renewed agency. The record feels like a gathering of lived experiences, distilled into music meant to heal.
Maya de Vitry produced the album and appears throughout on vocal harmony and instruments. The core ensemble features Alex Wilder, Ethan Jodziewicz, John Mailander, Jordan Tice, Annaliese Kowert, and Lizzy Ross, longtime Nashville collaborators whose familiarity supports Delynn’s direct, unadorned performances.
History reminds us that folk music has long been a vessel for shared resilience, whether sung in Irish pubs, Appalachian hollows, or Dust Bowl camps. Delynn steps into this lineage with remarkable grace.
Early singles highlight the album’s emotional range. “For the Record,” the first release, introduces the project with a cinematic string arrangement and a message of goodwill after a difficult relationship; Annaliese Kowert’s violins join Delynn on acoustic guitar, de Vitry on synth, and Jodziewicz on arco bass.
“Blood Alone,” the second single, places Delynn and de Vitry in close harmony with Jordan Tice on acoustic guitar and Wilder on wurlitzer; Americana Highways described the performance as intimate and unflinching.
“Jealousy,” the third single. Delynn frames the song as a study in self-honesty: jealousy, she says, can clarify desire rather than signal shame.
Several tracks offer distinct vantage points. “Leaf on a River” moves from calm to current, pairing acceptance and grief with three-part harmonies by Delynn, Wilder, and Lizzy Ross.
“Best Guess” narrows the lens to a spare setting of voice, nylon-string guitar, synth, and piano. Meanwhile, “No Small Thing” addresses an unwelcome heartbreak with electric guitar and grounded acoustic support.
“Marion” functions as a midpoint reset, a lovely field recording of improvised guitar framed by birds and footfalls.
“Mind of God” builds from minimal accompaniment into layered voices that consider interdependence.
“The Rooster’s Dead” shifts the arc toward forward motion with a light-hearted hum choir. “Wishes” documents quiet reconciliation in a solo performance.
The closing track, “Waiting,” draws on the sean-nós tradition as a duet for voice and fiddle with John Mailander, who also shaped the drones with loop pedals. Written after Delynn’s mother died in February 2021, the piece considers mortality and the urgency of living fully—clear themes that thread the album from start to finish.
Hannah says, “I have been learning how to more deeply trust myself, others, and the world around me. Life has a way of alchemizing pain and hardship into beautiful blessings and gifts, but it can feel like we’re first being melted down in the crucible or turned to goo in the chrysalis. Learning to ask for help and to summon both courage and surrender during those moments has been a vital, if uncomfortable, process, and these songs have come from that cauldron. They are soul-friends, catharsis, comforters, and companions.”
“Trust Fall was made with some of my favorite people on earth,” says Hannah. “We are close friends, and I think that’s what allowed for the depth of vulnerability. Each person made me feel so completely held and free to just ‘be’ and truly open up and let the raw emotion of these songs flow into the performances.”
De Vitry co-wrote “Leaf on a River,” “Blood Alone,” and “No Small Thing,” and contributed string arrangements to “For the Record.” Additional co-writers include Josh Rennie-Hynes (“For the Record”) and Clare Reynolds (“Jealousy”). Emily Mann provided chordal arrangements for “Waiting.”
Delynn’s path to Nashville began in Florida and wound through New Zealand, British Columbia, and Australia; the travel informed the lyrics that anchor Trust Fall.
Musicians: Hannah Delynn on lead, backing and harmony vocals, acoustic guitar, nylon string guitar, electric guitar, synthesizer; Maya de Vitry on harmony vocals, acoustic guitar, openback banjo, percussion, high-strung guitar, string arrangement, synth; Alex Wilder on harmony vocals, piano, Wurlitzer; Ethan Jodziewicz on arco bass, ukulele bass, footsteps & soundscape; Jordan Tice on acoustic guitar; Annaliese Kowert on violins; Lizzy Ross on harmony vocals; John Mailander on fiddle & looping.
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Author: Madison Quinn
Thank you for reviewing Trust Fall, Madison and World Music Central! I appreciate how you’ve felt and grasped the heart of the record and that is incredibly meaningful. Many, many, thanks and all the best.
Kindly, Hannah