With standout new single, "Holdin' On," Brooklyn-based Singer-songwriter Joshua Gellman shows us that sometimes the quietest moments carry the most weight. With his new record, "Speak To My Dreams," he delivers a lived experience through melody.
It's a deceptively rich and subtle piece of arranging, working its way nimbly through flickering emotions without losing its center. Gellman's singing is sincere and tasteful, making every note count. Every harmony is a place-setting of touch, and as an entire composition it feels told close, private, as if we have been granted a glimpse into a diary we weren't supposed to see.
"Holdin' On" captures the ache of patience in love with grace and patience, as he shares a meditation on the most tender terrain of love's timing. It's the sort of song that breathes and swells and eventually takes your heart hostage. The emotional balance found on this track is tricky to come by. It walks a fine line, straddling the one between being ready to love someone wholeheartedly and understanding that love, indeed, sometimes makes you wait.
Only "Holdin' On" stands out not only because of its transparent lyricism and genre-blending sensibility but because of the hypersonic clarity that grounds it. Inspired by an instant of quiet and emotional overload, Gellman translated that introspective interlude into a song that is widely relatable. You can sense the yearning, the inhibition, the deep breath before the plunge, all of it conveyed with the sort of heart-wrenching earnestness that stays with you.
This is music for the quiet hours, for the in-between moments, for anyone who's ever waited on love with love in their heart and uncertainty in their hands. On "Holdin' On," Joshua Gellman is making room for them.
Reviewed by LyricalOdyssey Music
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July 02, 2025
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