Rachel DeeLynn – Gut Feeling: Histironic Pop-Punk for Anyone Who Mistook Red Flags for Butterflies –

With her latest infectious pop-punk anthem, Gut Feeling, Rachel DeeLynn injects the eccentric accessibility of Chappell Roan into a high-voltage hit that is enough to make the Paramore discography sound like it needs to be put on life support. The alternative pop-rock artist has already earned Grammy consideration, major radio play across BBC and KISS FM, and back-to-back number one singles on the World Indie Music Charts, but Gut Feeling leaves the icon standing on top of a fresh detonation point.

Every progression has a way of finding new means to broadside adrenaline into you through chameleonic shifts, whether DeeLynn is snarling as though possessed by hindsight and refusing to silence her intuition, or spiralling through artful, avant-garde, camp-pop phrasing.

If you have ever been gaslit, waved away the red flags, chased the butterflies and come out the other side scathed, Gut Feeling is the ultimate vindicating alt-pop-punk anthem. DeeLynn’s biting rock instrumentation and pop hooks land with the force of someone who has already proved her commercial pull while refusing to sand down her edges. There is a live wire of vitality and conviction running through the hit; it is pop-punk without the stain of mainstream pandering, as raw and revolutionary as it always should have been. We need to protect her seminal originality at all costs.

Gut Feeling is now available to stream on all major platforms, including Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast