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Heaven
Heaven is a New York City-based band formed in 2010 by Mikey Jones (drums), who played with the Big Sleep and Swervedriver, and Matt Sumrow (vocals/guitars) of Dean & Britta and the Comas. After a stint playing in Adam Franklin's backing band, Bolts of Love, the pair came together, along with Fan-Tan's Ryan Lee Dunlap (keyboards), to create a drifting and dense sound that falls somewhere between the worlds of melodic dream pop and shoegaze. Heaven debuted their psychedelic blend in 2013 with their first full-length, Telepathic Love, released on Goodnight Records followed by "All Love is Blue" in 2018. The band will return with their 3rd LP and 1st in over 7 years in April of 2024. RIYL: Swervedriver, The Lemondheads, Teenage Fanclub
News updates for Heaven
NYC power-popgaze band Heaven share enthralling new single “The Fire You Know" from forthcoming LP Dream Aloud
NYC-based power-popgaze band Heaven are excited to share the second single from their upcoming third full-length album, Dream Aloud, out April 4, 2025, via Little Cloud Records. Out now, “The Fire You Know” is a fever dream of a lyrical vision, melancholy orchestral sounds anchored by hi-hats keep fated beliefs and secrets deep inside. Out now with an official music video, today’s single features Megan LaMarca on cello recorded by her husband Anthony LaMarca from The War On Drugs. Heaven’s usual choir of noisy guitars are traded in for lush string arrangements, resulting in complete sonic entracement.
The official music video for “The Fire You Know” was filmed in Upstate New York in and around an early 20th-century farmhouse in Narrowsburg, NY, aptly called the Nowhere House. Directed and shot by Jeska Sand, the excursion from NYC was an escape into the cold snowy recess of winter to find the fire and the warmth needed to conjure the vision, voluntarily stepping into the doorway of the madness that is believing. Stream the new single below along with the previously released single "I Need You More Somehow" both taken from the forthcoming LP due this April.
RIYL: Teenage Fanclub, Swervedriver, The Lemonheads, Ride
Releases
Dream Aloud
April 4, 2025Heaven, a power-popgaze band from NYC, is set to release their third album, "Dream Aloud," on April 4, 2025, through Little Cloud Records. The album marks their first LP in 7 years with most recent single "I Need You More Somehow" blending nostalgic melodies with reverb-filled guitars, offering a taste of the emotional journey and otherworldly sounds to expect from the upcoming album. Influenced by artists like Teenage Fanclub, The Lemonheads and Swervedriver, Heaven's dreamy yet introspective tracks showcase their evolution as a trio, with Matt Sumrow, Mikey Jones, and Sonia Manalili now shaping their most somnambulistic record yet.