Hannah Delynn – Jealousy

Hannah Delynn, a Nashville-based vocalist/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist, independently releases her debut full-length album, Trust Fall, on September 5.

Hannah’s ability and openness to view life from many perspectives result in songs that are emotionally engaging and compelling. Finding freedom through vulnerability, this record is a testament to accepting self-responsibility and the myriad mixed emotions that entails.

Hannah says, “I write about matters of the heart and hope my words and songs bring you hope and healing and connect you with the beauty that is all around us—even when it feels difficult to see.”

Hannah has just released “Jealousy,” the third single.

The song’s raw, almost pop sound shows complete vulnerability in shedding light on a difficult emotion—coming to peace with one’s own journey and the beauty and necessity of our unique paths. Hannah says, “Instead of being a shameful thing, jealousy can be an insight into what one really wants by seeing others as mirrors to oneself.”

Originally from Florida, Hannah found her way to Nashville in 2013 by way of New Zealand, British Columbia, and Australia, gathering stories (soon to be songs) along the way. This collection of songs honors a potent sea of change in Delynn’s life as she reflects on a season of deep grief, loss, betrayal, and heartbreak, as well as beauty, love, generosity, and friendship.

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.”

While blind faith may certainly be called upon in this idea of a trust fall, the album more references the understanding that life is a co-collaboration with Spirit, which can, more often than not, require us to lean into some fairly gritty discomfort zones. Hannah says, “But that’s the point. You want life to be different? You’re gonna have to do things differently. But you don’t have to go it alone… To put it another way, it’s about learning to ask for help…”

“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.”

Produced by fellow songwriter Maya de Vitry, who also sings harmony and performs on the album, the pair brought together a fantastic cast of Nashville musicians to record, including further harmonies by Alex Wilder (also on piano/Wurlitzer), Ethan Jodziewicz on arco and ukulele bass, as well as cameos by John Mailander on fiddle and electronics, Jordan Tice on guitar, Annaliese Kowert on violins, and Lizzy Ross on harmony vocals.

Trust Fall contains 11 original songs by Delynn, including a few co-writes credited to de Vitry (“Leaf on a River,” “Blood Alone,” and “No Small Thing,” as well as string arrangements on ”For the Record”), Josh Rennie-Hynes (“For the Record”), and Clare Reynolds (“Jealousy”). “Waiting” has chordal arrangements by Emily Mann.

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