Hidden Shoresโ Fractal Heart is a revelation unfolding in digital slow motion. The Belgian project, created by an elementary school teacher who trades chalkboards for synths after dark, lives right at the crossroads of vulnerability and electronic wonder. You can feel the deep respect for traditional songwriting here, but also a clear curiosity about how technology can stretch emotion into new shapes. This combination creates an intimate and cinematic album, that comes off warm, wounded, and gently futuristic.
It kicks off strong with โShadow-Girl Rising,โ a defiant opener built on crisp, strumming guitars and a steady, resilient, and finally unafraid voice. As the track pushes forward, the guitars grow sparklier and more driven, rising higher while low, rumbling beats churn underneath. Lyrically, itโs a cathartic reckoning with past selves and buried shame, and musically it mirrors that journeyโstarting contained, then blazing into something bold and unhidden. When the chorus hits, it feels less like a hook and more like a declaration.
Later, โFractal Heartโ softens the edges without losing intensity. A catchy electronic beat anchors the song while the vocals turn childlike, fragile, and dainty, giving the track a tender core. When the chorus blooms, the production becomes vivid and colorful, beats falling into place with addictive ease. Itโs love as chaos and pattern at onceโpulling apart, rebuilding, looping endlessly like the shapes the title suggests.
โTo A Dawn Of A Brighter Dayโ leans fully into atmosphere. Ambient layers wash over the track as soulful backing vocals add warmth and lift. The lead voice is rich and tender, soaring resiliently while the music steadily builds toward an emotional apex.
By the time you reach โJust Like You,โ the album opens into full, orchestral glow. A rising melody intertwines with a soothing flute carrying an exotic Eastern feel. Strings swell, backing vocals shine with choral elegance, and the whole thing floats upward, luminous and affectionate. Fractal Heart draws you in, one careful layer at a time, and leaves you somewhere softer, clearer, and strangely grounded.
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Review by: Naomi Joan