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The Hardest Love
Pop · 2022 · 10 tracks · 31m

The Hardest Love

A collection of stark piano ballads and acoustic pop focused on the weight of grief. Intimate, heavy with strings, and anchored by a signature raspy delivery.

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It's basically a ten-track guide on how to have a productive cry about your life.

A heavy, resonant exploration of grief that finds beauty in the wreckage of lost connections.

The Hardest Love · vs · Dean Lewis
Grief+1.9σ

The writing leans notably further into grief than the rest of the catalogue.

Tracklist · 10 Tracks · 31m
01
Small Disasters
3:19
02
Looks Like Me
3:11
03
The Hardest Love
4:04
04
Hurtless
3:00
05
All for You
3:45
06
How Do I Say Goodbye
2:44
07
Scares Me
3:02
08
Something to Help
2:39
09
Into the Breeze
2:46
10
To Have You Today
2:42
Moments Worth Waiting For
the devastating crack in the vocals during the final chorus of How Do I Say Goodbye
the way the piano chords sustain into the silence on the title track
the sudden swell of cinematic strings that elevates Hurtless from a folk song to an anthem
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