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Superheaven self-titled album released April 18, 2025 produced by Blue Grape Music. The self-titled album included 10 songs.
Superheaven emerges with its self-titled album after a decade since its last.
This record is a blend of ‘90s grunge, shoegaze textures and post-hardcore elements. It starts loud and heavy then follows into softer sounds to finish the album.
The band opens the album with fuzzy, blown-out guitars layered over pounding drums with the vocals sounding like the singer is stuck in a void. Lyrically, the album continues the band’s introspection and emotional honesty, themes of disconnections, identity and the passing of time.
This album reminds me of being in a void, not in a negative sense but in a floating-in-space kind of way. The lyrics “drifting through the great unknown” from the song “Long Gone,” which is also my favorite from the record, describe how I felt while listening.
“Human For Toys” is the opening track with its fuzzy guitar riffs and heavy drumming.
“Numb To What Is Real” follows, showing off the band’s song writing abilities with introspective lyrics. The song “Cruel Times” dives into change and learning how to let go.
The album talks about letting go, facing fears and expressing emotions while also battling the inner thoughts about being present.
My other favorite song from the album is “Sounds Of Good byes.” It adds in a more melancholic melody while still having the heaviness of instrumentals. The ending lyrics stood out to me the most, “By the sounds of goodbyes, it’s a spark of a new life. Now, I don’t feel like a burden on life’s shoulders.”
Then there’s “Hothead,” a short, fast-paced song in the middle of the album that ends the heavier instrumentals. The following track “Conflicted Mood” brings the tone for the rest of the album to a slower pace with instrumentals and light vocals.
The song “Stare At The Void” is what sounds like what I would imagine being in a “void.”
The album comes to a close with the song “The Curtain” with long drawn-out guitar riffs with light drumming. It leaves the listener feeling suspended in the same strange limbo the album started in.
Overall, the album is solid with its fuzzy guitar sounds, vocals that sound isolated, heavy pounding drums and lyrics that make you feel something.
With its self-titled album, Superheaven isn’t chasing a new sound, it’s just refining the formula to sound more present. The band members still sound like themselves, just maybe a little wiser.
Across the 10 dense, fuzzy tracks, the band stays consistent with its original sound while digging further into the space between grunge, shoegaze and post-hardcore. It’s overwhelming in a comforting way. 