Faultlines
There is a moment in every tarot reading when the cards fall into place and you realise you are not being shown a fixed future but a set of emotional possibilities. A spread can feel like a verdict only until you remember that your state of mind shapes the interpretation as much as any symbol on the table. This is the spirit running through Pisgah’s new indie rock album, “Faultlines”, which treats the end of a relationship not as a collapse but as a shift in perspective. The record draws on her time working as a tarot reader, a role that required her to move between intuition, metaphor and observation. One of the album’s guiding images is The Tower, the card most people dread. In the deck it appears as an eruption of chaos, bodies falling as structure gives way. Yet anyone who has sat with it knows The Tower is less about destruction than revelation. It suggests that what we take as stability might only be habit, and that breaking apart can expose what we have been unwilling to see. Pisgah uses this symbolism not to mystify heartbreak but to frame it as a moment when familiar emotional architecture finally cracks under its own weight. In her hands, the collapse becomes a clearing, a space where self deception burns off and something more honest can form. The cultural pull of tarot today is often dismissed as escapism, but here it functions as a reminder that people are searching for frameworks that help make sense of personal upheaval. “Faultlines” leans into that desire, treating introspection not as solipsism but as a way of acknowledging that change hurts because it forces us to confront what we have outgrown.