Publicity Campaign: Suzana Poljak - 'There’s No Freedom With Fear'

Suzana Poljak (she/her) releases her debut album ‘There Is No Freedom With Fear’ via Wild At Heart, a 10-track dream pop and fantasy pop record shaped from handwritten poetry, visual art, and the private logic of coping. Built from older fragments of language and image, the album reframes shyness, social anxiety and isolation through fairytale motifs, giving difficult memories a softened edge and a new ending.

Across ‘There Is No Freedom With Fear’, Suzana builds a world that feels intimate and otherworldly. Many songs began as poems written long ago, others as characters and scenes from her artworks, later reimagined as vignettes where whimsy and emotional truth sit side by side. It is an album about internal mechanisms, the quiet work of healing, and the relief of externalising what is hard to say.

Produced and co-written with Sean Conran (Obscura Hail), the record balances playful texture with clarity and restraint. Suzana describes the sound as “unique, imaginative, magical, fairytale inspired, art brut, fringe pop”, with surreal touchstones like ‘The Labyrinth’, Escher, and ‘Alice In Wonderland’. The result is music that invites listeners close, while still offering a safe distance to witness sadness, hope and transformation.

Lead single ‘Upside Down Standing On The Ceiling’ introduced Suzana’s topsy-turvy dream logic, beginning life as a self-portrait digital collage before becoming a song. Visually, she draws from old fairy tale books and films like ‘Alice In Wonderland’ and ‘The Secret Garden’, chasing a sense of overgrowth and childhood innocence. For the album artwork, Suzana sketched elements around a photo of herself and cursive handwriting, then used AI as a tool to bring the image closer to what she could see in her mind.

At its core, ‘There Is No Freedom With Fear’ is an act of self-understanding. Suzana hopes the album encourages shy listeners to express themselves, seek support, and find something familiar in her blend of vulnerability and imagination.

It is best listened to on a walk through the woods at twilight, or at home curled up with a cup of tea, anywhere that feels a little bit magical.