It took us a while to fully grasp the potent and selfless ethos that propels ‘Only a broken heart can hold the world’. The album is what we’d call a holistic project, a work of art so strong that it finds confirmation both in its lyrical and aural components. Behind the record, we find London-based, Taiwanese producer and songwriter Susan Style. The basis of her latest offering lies in deep personal experience, as Susan makes a move from Taiwan to London, carrying the ghost of a past relationship and a broken heart. This might sound like a melancholic hook to the unsuspecting listener, yet it also provides the foundation for a deeply rejuvenating introspective process.
You see, Susan Style recognises that in order to embrace her authentic self and discover higher cultural planes, she must embrace the pain of a broken heart. She does so selflessly, capturing such a strikingly raw period into the seven episodes that form the musical mass behind ‘Only a broken heart can hold the world’. From a sonic standpoint, the listener is met with a wealth of blissful cinematic and experimental alt-pop exploration.
Delving deeper into such a complex and nuanced concept, we are told: “Inspired by the paradox of ‘blessed brokenness’, Susan redefines heartbreak as a necessary deconstruction. By breaking open her heart, she shattered old cultural prejudices and emotional frameworks, creating space to hold a wider, more vibrant world.” Style herself continues: “Inspired by Mother Teresa’s prayer, ‘May God break my heart so completely that the whole world falls in’, this album is a journey from the quiet whispers of deconstruction to the vibrant celebration of liberation.”
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