Knowing something is right and being able to live with it are two entirely different things.
Jensyn knows this better than most. ‘Trust’, the final single in their debut trilogy, out 16th June, was written in the wake of ending a relationship: a decision they knew was correct, and couldn’t stop second-guessing anyway. The guilt of being the one who walked away, combined with an anxiety-driven tendency to interrogate every instinct, sent them into a spiral so complete that they lost track of what they actually believed. “This is the song that came from overthinking so much that I lost all sense of what I believed was right or wrong,” they share.
That experience, of losing your own north star through sheer force of self-interrogation, is the emotional core of the track. And it is rendered here with the kind of precision that only comes from writing very close to the bone.
Sonically, ‘Trust’ is the most ambitious entry in a trilogy that has already covered considerable ground. Where ‘Somebody Else’ examined the ambiguity of romantic loss and ‘Throw’ turned a searingly honest lens on grief and family, ‘Trust’ pushes further into alt-rock and prog territory: gritty guitars, commanding vocal layering, Matthew Humphries’ drums and Jack O’Hanlon’s guitar driving the track through a series of dynamic turns before landing somewhere that feels both exhausted and hard-won. Produced and mixed by Jensyn themselves and mastered by James Wyatt at Sloe Flower Studios, the control across the recording is striking for an artist still early in their public journey.
Taken together, the trilogy tells a quietly remarkable story. Across three singles released in six weeks, the Liverpool-based queer non-binary artist has mapped the emotional terrain of romantic loss, family grief, and psychological self-doubt with a maturity that belies the scale of the releases. Each track is distinct in tone and subject, but united by a refusal to make anything neater or simpler than it actually is. For fans of Phoebe Bridgers, MUNA, The Japanese House and Caroline Polachek, this is the kind of songwriting that lingers long after the track ends.
With the trilogy complete, Jensyn is already moving forward: developing new music in collaboration with 20 Stories High, the acclaimed Liverpool-based theatre company, and Future Yard, one of the most important grassroots music spaces in the north of England. Live dates are in the works, with a show planned for November.
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