Superheaven have returned with their first new album in ten years. It’s a banger. Old and new fans will rightly rejoice upon listening. It’s the perfect record to uplift and inspire, as well as accompany you through your most challenging days.
Indeed, through ‘Numb To What Is Real’ and ‘Sounds Of Goodbyes’ we are treated to the skyrocketing choruses that we have come to expect from modern grunge’s favourite band, and while this record doesn’t take the group’s sound to drastic new territories, it will remind so many people of their youth, it will evoke many good and bad emotions – the riffs will hit hard, kids will pick up guitars and get behind drum kits because of this album, and that’s not a bad legacy to have at all. We will never again have the original anymore, but we sure as hell do have the OG Superheaven, and that’s definitely good enough for us.
Punkier and faster tunes like ‘Hot Head’ balance out the moodier, hookier ‘Conflicted Mood’ (solid album highlight for this writer) which sees the band dip their collective toes into post-punk and ‘Next Time’ will appease fans of radio-friendly pop-rock in the same way that ‘Youngest Daughter’ hooked in the TikTok generation. If final track, ‘The Curtain’ is to be Superheaven’s swansong (I’m not saying it is), then it’s a fine bow to the various generations that now hold their music so close to the heart.
