"Although its title sounds all sweet and sugary, "The Hole in My Heart is Filled With Ice Cream" actually deals with serious issues such as ego, materialism, addiction, suicide and faith."
"Ice Cream" is a musically rich attempt to offer audience members a chance to think, review and connect with what Faucon, 47, of Dover, sees as both a very personal and very universal story on a visceral level."
"It's a bit of a lofty goal, but Faucon speaks with such determination that her hopes seem neither unrealistic nor improbable. Nearly everything she speaks about turns into a nugget of philosophical insight."
“Faucon's story is compelling, powerful and authentic. The Hole In My Heart Is Filled With Ice Cream, with its observations on what it means to be a woman in the modern age, adds expertly played jazz and rhythm and blues to Faucon's inspiring story of despair and redemption.”
“I’ve seen all the great contemporary women jazz vocalists from Cassandra Wilson to Diana Krall,” comments the journalist/author/documentary filmmaker Martin Torgoff, who covered music as a producer for CNN Worldbeat. “Susan’s rich alto voice is filled with exceptional control, vibrant diversity and the raw truth of a life lived with dramatic abandon, exquisite passion and the love of song. It’s a voice that calls to mind the clean tones of Barbara Streisand, the interpretive style of Billy Holiday and the bluesy fullness of Bonnie Raitt. When she performs, her warm and approachable manner invites everyone around her to feel at ease with the world and to be wonderfully entertained.”