IV: Heaven Sent

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(PRESS BLURB) “HEAVEN SENT, the fourth release by mid-American Sludgegaze band Another Heaven, finds the band expanding in more ways than one. Now a four-piece (with the addition of a second guitarist), the music is both more vast in scope and more bracing in its use of ideas and sounds from Heavy Music. “Down” - for example - erupts in a flash of pure noise before resolving into a deceptively pretty chorus, while “Arab Stardust” alternates between gently picked verses and scathing 90s-rock choruses as it explores the horror of being not-white in America. Elsewhere, screamed post-hardcore vocals (the lumbering noise rock of “Eternal”) collide with layered harmonies (the pristine 90s shoegaze of the Karl Ove Knausgard-inspired “Luxury Funeral”) and brutal breakdowns emerge from clouds of hazy guitar sparkle - like some unhinged weirdo flipping a radio between stations playing Stereolab and Oxbow (“Erased” and “The Light,” natch). (Fair Warning) This album is cursed. I’m not sure when we picked up the curse but it slowly overwhelmed the album until every song became about the curse. The curse could be real or it could be “The Curse” - like, a metaphor for living in America as the world falls apart. A lot of these songs are about living here in the end times (“Erased,” “Luxury Funeral,” “Catacombs,” “Just Another Day,” etc.) and experiencing the sixth extinction event - a feeling like the earth is either dying or aggressively purging us. But also the curse is real and the album is about that too. When we started writing it, I found out that I needed extensive surgeries to avoid going blind and that became the next 6 months of my life. After that people started breaking up, getting sick, getting hurt, experiencing deaths in the family. It was a mess. More and more it felt like the album was being made in spite of everything happening around and to us. Some curses go way back - sometimes you are, in fact, born to immigrant parents on the day of a stock market crash - but this feels more recent and more visceral. I hope releasing it breaks the curse, otherwise we are fucked.. (Cont.) “HEAVEN SENT” is, alternately: a very strange record for very strange people, a road trip through the end times in America, a terrified scream brought on by the destruction of the natural world, a heavy metal record, a shoegaze record, a Kiyoshi Kurosawa movie, maybe nothing at all.