Shara Strand Love Forever – A Debut Album That Dares to Feel

SHARA STRAND’S LOVE FOREVER LANDS WITH FIRE, FLAWS, AND FULL HEART

Not long ago, I wrote about Happy Ending – a single that felt like the start of something bigger. Turns out, I was right. Love Forever, Shara Strand’s debut album, is here, and it plays like a love letter to every version of yourself you’ve had to drag through the fire. I sat down to listen thinking I’d just dip in. Instead, I got pulled under, track by track, no small talk.

For those who think this is a polished fairy-tale or a playlist hack – well, pips, this is a woman telling her story with scars still warm, melodies still breathing. her story with scars still warm, melodies still breathing.

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WHERE HEART MEETS SOUND

Love Forever opens with I Will Be Here, and if that title sounds simple, the song is anything but. It’s a quiet promise wrapped in presence, the kind that fills the room without raising its voice. Then My Green Light slides in with lowered pitch and whispered hooks – it’s seductive, magnetic, the kind of song that plays while everything else around you stops.

And then – Always You Baby. That’s where things turn. Chords walk in like they know something I don’t, and from there it spirals – bold, strange, addictive. Somewhere in there, she drops the line “Green dress, red hair / Slow dance, you stare” – and I swear, that image lodged itself behind my eyes for the rest of the day.

What hits hardest is the way each track seems to hold its own emotional climate. I Will Follow plays like surrender on a tightrope. You don’t fall – you float into it. Then comes Anthem, and suddenly I’m hearing a different Shara: more grounded, more fire. Americana edges, rocky soul – like she finally stops asking and starts claiming.

Happy Ending returns here too, and hearing it again, embedded in the arc of the album, it feels even more alive. Familiar, yes – but now it carries new weight, nested in all this emotional architecture.

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A JOURNEY WRITTEN IN CHORDS AND CRACKS

Mid-album, Desperado unspools like a haunted love letter. It aches in all the right places, layered in a mystic fog of vocals and chaotic beauty. There’s something in its architecture that reminded me what vulnerability sounds like when no one’s trying to clean it up.

Surrender comes next – soft, thankful. A breath instead of a bang.

Then come Soul Dad and My Sweetest Boy – tracks that read like pages torn from a journal, folded up and still warm. Some might hear songs. What I hear is legacy – tangled memories, real love, and moments too personal to fake. You can’t fake this kind of emotion. You either lived it, or you didn’t.

By the time Ascended closes the album, there’s this rush of release. It’s dark-pop, yes – but it rises. It lets go. You feel lighter by the time it fades away. The album opens with devotion and ends with liberation. Heart and wings, as she puts it – and yeah, that tracks.

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SHARA STRAND: THE VOICE, THE SHIFT

Shara’s voice moves like it belongs – no effort, no showboating. Just presence, full and lived-in. She’s not leaning on genre tropes or production tricks. She’s crafting a world out of her own experience – one foot in the past, one toe dipped in the healing that’s still happening.

And I respect that. Because this whole album doesn’t try to tie love up with a bow. It lets it sit there – raw, loud, intimate. The stuff we dance with and run from in equal measure.

Recorded at Engine Room Audio in NYC, with Gregory “Phace” Fils-Aime once again behind the boards, Love Forever leans on feeling, not fashion. You hear it in the choices, the quiet risks, the pulse that speaks before thinking.

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Love Forever is already out on all major platforms, ready for those who still want music to say something. It’s messy, melodic, unafraid. And it reminded me why some albums deserve more than a skim. Some stories beg to be told. Others, like this one, just start talking – and you’d be a fool not to listen.

You felt it? Good. Go follow Shara – Spotify, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook. Keep the sound close. That’s how stories keep breathing.

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