Beatrix Thorn’s genre-defying debut album ‘rabbit’ is heavy—lyrically and musically

Beatrix Thorn recorded and released her first EP Worm Moon in her bedroom closet using GarageBand on her iPad back in 2022. It got a proper release on Spring Garden Records—the official record label of the Community College of Philadelphia—in 2025.

Now, Thorn’s first full record, rabbit, is out and signals a major moment in the singer-songwriter’s growing career.

“It’s really exciting,” Thorn, real name Natalie Gebhardt, said. “It feels like a major milestone in my life.”

She worked with producer Paul Geissinger, better known as Starkey, on rabbit and said collaborating with him was initially challenging after working alone.

 ”I had to be like, ‘Wow, I have this relationship with the music that is very personal,’ and then hearing somebody take it and interpret it in a different way was hard for me to get used to at first,” she said. “But then it turned into a really beautiful collaborative process between the two of us.”

The themes in rabbit are heavy, as is the music underscoring her words. A major lyrical theme is one-sided relationships;  caring about someone who doesn’t—or can’t—care about the other as much as they care about them.

 ”I had a lot of relationships with people who were troubled in the past,” she said. “I used to live in this small town in Massachusetts, and it was the kind of town where everybody left after high school to go off to college, and I didn’t. Everybody who was left behind was just partying and getting into a lot of trouble. And so a lot of the songs are about those people that I had in my life at that time.”

And, the record dives into addiction. The track “Gambler’s Fallacy” particularly addresses the topic. The song is about a former coworker who Thorn said was “ viciously addicted to gambling.”

 ”He was fighting off multiple DUIs at the time,” she said. “He was in this troubled relationship with this guy, and he would be coming into work all covered in bruises. ‘I rolled out of my boyfriend’s car on the freeway on the way to the casino. And anyways, I’m gonna buy a roll of scratch tickets. Do you wanna give me $200 and we can go splitsies on it?'”

Thorn said while the coworker’s life was hectic, “ it mostly was just sad.”

 ”It got me thinking about why we do things that hurt ourselves and where those motives are coming from.”

Thorn never even expected to record and release the song. Now, though, she says it’s her favorite of the 13 on her new record, which has a variety of influences that can be detected throughout. Lana Del Rey, Amy Winehouse, Nina Simone, The Grateful Dead, Marina, and Neil Young all were in Thorn’s mind when writing and recording rabbit.

While Thorn doesn’t have any solo gigs on the books yet—she’s hoping for an album release show in December—you can catch her drumming and singing with her band There, There Nov. 21 at The Star Stable with Starikova, Daisy Chain, Nerve Center, and Holotypes.