Heavenly - Highway To Heavenly (album)

***PREORDER FOR 27 FEBRUARY RELEASE***

Fifth Heavenly LP, released almost 30 years after the band's fourth. Includes optional MP3 downloads. 

On CD/White vinyl. Both include a colour insert featuring a montage of pictures and special video links. Every album comes with a free 'highway to heavenly' car-window sticker. (it works on other windows if you don't have a car.) 

Vinyl also available in a bundle with a butterfly bus T-shirt. And there are Heavenly bike bells too.

US customers will have their orders fulfilled by Jigsaw in the US, so the postage costs are not insane. 

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Heavenly are seen as the originators of a whole genre of music – known to some as ‘jangle’, others as ‘twee’ and to the band themselves as ‘indiepop’.  As fiercely independent as any punk band, but as sweetly melodic as any chart-topping act, Heavenly combine sharp-edged politics with shamelessly joyful pop music.

‘Highway To Heavenly’ shares this recipe with the band’s first four albums, all of which were released in the 1990s at a time when sensitive indie types in the UK were sheltering from the prevailing macho-rock storm. The new songs are full of anger, of grief, of empathy, of love, and set themselves in opposition to the resurgence of the cold ‘masculine energy’ that is making the world a miserable, aggressive place today.

Heavenly have recently enjoyed a huge resurgence of interest from a younger generation of fans, who have cottoned on to Heavenly’s music, but also embraced the band’s inclusive version of feminism.  Portland Town is a joyful celebration of a place where diversity is welcomed.  Press Return is a demolition of those men who think technology and wealth make them winners rather than sad losers.  Excuse Me is an outburst of punk energy, as effervescent as a song on the first Undertones album, recalling a teenage romance with the nerdiest person in school. 

A Different Beat tells the entire story of a doomed relationship, its heroine falling for and then escaping from an oppressive man, before heading for the metaphorical disco of freedom.  Heavenly have clearly been to a disco or two lately: opening track Scene Stealing feels like a distant cousin of Blondie’s ‘Heart Of Glass’ and tells the story of self-obsessed YouTube influencers who don’t know how to treat women with respect.  By contrast, album closer That Last Day may be most poignant song about bereavement you will hear all year, certainly the only one you’ll want to sing along to.  It’s all pop here, but Highway To Heavenly has a huge range of tones and moods.

Guitar: Peter Momtchiloff 
Bass: Rob Pursey
Vocals, guitar: Amelia Fletcher
Drums: Ian Button
Keyboards, vocals: Cathy Rogers
Produced by Toby Burroughs at Rumbaba Studios

SIDE A

01. Scene Stealing   3.51
02. Portland Town    3.12
03. Press Return      4.03
04. Skep Wax           3.00
05. Deflicted             3.57
06. Excuse Me          2.36

SIDE B

07. A Different Beat  4.59
08. Good Times        3.29
09. The Neverseen   4.06
10. She Is The One   4.01
11. That Last Day      3.20

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