Trinity Bliss chooses the mess over the fairytale on her new album ‘Forever Fool’

Most coming-of-age records arrive with the benefit of hindsight. But 'Forever Fool' has no such distance, and that is precisely what makes Trinity Bliss’ sophomore album feel so immediate.

Across ten interconnected tracks, the LA singer-songwriter captures adolescence while the emotions are still happening: such as the rush of a new crush, the exhausting overanalysis of every interaction, the fantasy of perfect romance and the gradual realisation that growing up rarely follows the story you imagined for yourself.

Musically, dreamy vocal harmonies, indie-pop hooks and touches of folk storytelling provide the backdrop, while her lyrics bring enough wit and self-awareness to stop the record becoming overly earnest.

‘chemistry’ lives inside the obsessive uncertainty of attraction, while ‘will they won’t they’ turns romantic indecision into something playful and restless. ‘i like like you’ embraces the wonderfully uncomplicated excitement of simply admitting how you feel, and ‘you make me wanna dance’ catches another side of that same emotional rush.

But 'Forever Fool' becomes more interesting when the fairytale begins to crack. ‘once upon a time’ and the title-track find her reconsidering the perfect endings that once seemed inevitable. But instead of replacing youthful optimism with cynicism, she arrives somewhere warmer. Being a “forever fool” means recognising that the moment may disappear and the heart might break, then choosing to experience it anyway.

That idea quietly expands beyond romance as the record unfolds. The possibility of falling for someone becomes inseparable from the larger question of becoming yourself, giving the album an emotional arc rather than simply a sequence of songs about crushes.

Warm, funny and wonderfully open-hearted, 'Forever Fool' captures growing up before nostalgia has had the chance to tidy it up. She doesn't pretend to know how the story ends; she simply decides it's worth living anyway.