Bend to Break
There’s a kind of silence that comes just before you admit the truth, not the calm of peace but the pause that follows when something inside you finally gives way. That’s the stillness at the heart of Pisgah’s “Bend to Break”, a song that feels like standing at the edge of a storm you can no longer avoid. Born in the American South and now based in London, Pisgah carries the sound of both places in her music. You can feel the horizon of her upbringing pressing against the introspection of her adopted city. The track begins with guitars that roll in like dark clouds before they give way to drums that feel like thunder breaking a long silence. Yet, what drives it isn’t the production but the realisation that the song captures: the moment you understand you’ve been living in someone else’s story for too long. There’s no bitterness in how she delivers that revelation, only clarity. She treats heartbreak as something elemental, like wind or rain, a force that reshapes more than it destroys. The lyrics talk of devastation but find light in release, a kind of acceptance that doesn’t glorify suffering but recognises it as a necessary change. Pisgah turns collapse into a rite of passage, the emotional equivalent of a controlled burn that clears space for new growth. Listening to “Bend to Break” feels like watching weather move across open land, knowing you can’t stop what’s coming but finally understanding you don’t need to. It’s not a song about resilience or recovery. It’s about surrender, and the strange sense of freedom that comes with it, when you stop trying to hold the sky together and simply let it rain.