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Superheaven “S/T” review: Resurrected and Reassured ★★★★☆

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After ten years without new music, alt-rock legends Superheaven have delivered a delightfully heavy sound on their new self-titled album.

The band of four broke up in 2015 after releasing their second album Ours Is Chrome. Though the band were successful within the local Penslyvania rock scene, they were unable to truly break into the mainstream until 2022.

Just as TikTok has done for many other long thought-gone acts, users on the platform began to use the song Youngest Daughter from the band’s 2013 album Jar in hundreds of videos, leading to the song gaining almost 150 million streams on Spotify.

Superheaven’s new found popularity prompted the band members to get back in the studio to create their new magnum opus. Would it be as heavy as Jar? Or would it have the swinging melodies of Ours Is Chrome? These questions have finally been answered with the release of S/T (Superheaven).

S/T is unique from the band’s previous work due to the partially reinvented sound the band have gone from. This is not to say there’s no shared DNA between this record and previous releases, in-fact there’s plenty. Songs like album opener Humans For Toys have the same droned vocals that made Youngest Daughter such a memorable song, even the initiallty released single Long Gone sounds like it at one point could have been a B-Side off of the Ours Is Chrome.  

The highs of S/T are staggering. Hothead is a perfect example, the song is a tight one minute thirty seconds alt-rock that never lets up. It’s full throttle the entire time and it acts as a refreshing change of pace compared to the band’s more mid-tempo style. Hothead transitions into perhaps the most mellow track the band have ever made – Conflicted Mood. 

Conflicted Mood features melodic acoustic guitars as well as the bands titular heavy swings. It’s an interesting listen, though it doesn’t compare to others songs on the album like Stare at The Void and Hothead.


S/T is a great new release from the once thought dead band, it stands as a perfect example of how a comeback album can be done right. It’s not overly new, but it takes the band in some interesting directions. Here’s hoping they are able to maintain the new success they have garnered and continue to make more albums in the years to come.

Featured Image Credit: Blue Grape Music. Hayden Hall

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