Nashville, Tennessee-based Progressive Art Rock band Gentry Blue have unveiled the official lyric visualizer for new single “The Staggering Expanse of Man,” released on August 21, 2025.
Watch the lyric visualizer via the YouTube player below:
“Staggering” is our cautionary tale for the world we live in. We humans have destroyed and plundered our world, and we are so content with what we have wrought. We consume so much that it will eventually lead to our demise and destruction.
Sean wrote this one, and he sums it up best:
“This is a song about the unfathomable bloat of our society. We’ve created a habitat for ourselves, with its own fabricated stressors and dopamine stimulants, to shut out the world that produced us, so we can ignore the fact that we are destroying it.
Eventually our habitat, our amusement park, will become our prison: we’ll try to escape this once-vibrant husk, only to find an impenetrable wall of our own refuse in orbit. Or rather, those paying attention will find it, those in charge. Most of us will be content until we die.
I wrote this on a hill looking out at a huge construction site that seemed to take up half my neighborhood.“
GENTRY BLUE TOUR DATES:
8/28 Murfressboro, TN (Hop Springs)
9/8 Knoxville, TN (Preservation Pub)
9/9 Knoxville, TN (Preservation Pub)
9/21 Murfreesboro, TN (Boro Fondo Fest)
9/24 Nashville, TN (The End)
Lineup:
Lydia Wynne / Vocals and Electric Violin Blip
Sean Jannay / Guitars, Bass, Drums, Angst
Brendan Gentry-DeBonis / Guitar