Leading up to his upcoming album ‘Nobody Lives Here’ on the 4 April, SYML currently treats his listeners with new releases every three weeks. ‘Heartbreakdown’, the fourth glimpse of his album, seems to embody the meaning of Brian Fennel’s music project’s name: “SYML” meaning “simple” in Welsh. This mellow hug of a song stresses with its acoustic arrangement the depth of the topic ever more so through its simplicity: the “beauty in the blessed heartbreak”; to find the courage to cling onto the love rather than the pain that might come along with it.
The opening acoustic guitar that accompanies SYML’s vivid and unexpectedly relatable descriptions of where the memory of a heartbreak might overcome you, feels reminiscent of the nostalgia of songs like Bob Dylan’s ‘Girl from a North Country’ or Haim’s ‘Hallelujah’. Further into the song, the guitar and vocals melt with additional acoustic guitars, string arrangements and gentle percussion.
SYML often repeats the question “Will you find your way somehow to love again?”. Even though we will experience our heart break in one way or another throughout all our lives, after listening to this song you’ll most certainly feel like replying “yes, you can”.
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