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With What Love Left Behind, the 23-year-old artist from Salzburg releases her debut EP. It traces the emotional stages of a breakup and what love leaves behind when it's gone. Moving between coldness, hope, longing and hate, she takes the listener on a journey through the highs and lows of a broken heart.

It begins with emotional coldness. In "Cold Hearted" she describes the urge to never let anyone in again, to turn the world upside down and to write love off as an illusion. But eventually a new spark appears, bringing back the hope that love might still exist after all. At the same time, the heart is still holding on to the past. Late-night longing and old memories make letting go hard, until the emotional dependence slowly fades – a feeling captured in the EP's second song, "Head Over Heels".

Over time, the mood shifts: love turns into hate, a feeling that is hard to explain and yet finds its place. But even that lump in the throat eventually begins to dissolve. What remains is the realisation of how deeply a relationship can shape a person and change the way they see themselves.

Because relationships are like mirrors: they show us sides of ourselves we might never have discovered otherwise. When a relationship breaks, a part of our own reflection often breaks with it. But what do you do with all the shards? Leave them lying there – or pick them up and shape them into something new?

With What Love Left Behind, the Salzburg-based artist sings about the pain of letting go, about rediscovering her own identity and about the strength to rise again from what has been broken. Because sometimes it's not about becoming the person you were before love – but about creating a new version of yourself: stronger, more aware and more resilient than before.