Band: Superheaven (formerly known as Daylight)
Released: 2013 (reissued after name change in 2014)
Label: Side One Dummy Records, Run For Cover Records
Genre: Grunge, Emo, Alternative Rock
Score: 10/10
Superheaven are a band from Pennsylvania, USA and are among the wave of new bands who are a throwback to the heyday of Grunge and Emo in the 90s. Jar is the full length debut album, which was reissued after they changed their name from Daylight due to legal reasons.
Jar sees a significant change from the band's previous back catalogue of the E.Ps 'The Difference in Good and Bad Dreams' and 'Dispirit', which has drawn many comparisons with younger, British bands Hindsights. However, Superheaven still manage to maintain their honest and emotional lyrics courtesy of vocalists Taylor Madison and Joe Clarke. However, their sound has evolved to encompass more drive and flanger pedals and making their guitar tones one of the best in the scene at the moment, in my opinion. It's fuzzy and heavy, yet clear enough to hear every note.
The band are also able to mix up the varity within each of the songs; contrasting quicker, punkier songs such as 'Knew' to slower, sadder songs such as 'Youngest Daughter' and 'Hole in the Ground'. It is the riffs in these heavier songs which I think are the bands strong suit. Take the second track on the album, for example 'Life in a Jar'. The drums introduced this track and then the guitars follow suit with an incredible riff, followed swiftly by a killer chorus. This is Superheaven at their best. The slower more 'ballad' type of songs are by no mean weak either; their honesty and emotion are really conveyed within the lyrical delivery, melody and the lyrics themselves (delivering on topics of seeing someone you love completely going of the rails and the death of a loved one, wishing you could do the same, potentially linking between the person who it's about).
The closing track to this LP is also superb, commenting on the fact that Taylor is used to being in some form of emotional pain and feeling that he gives everything to the person who this song is addressed to, yet receives nothing in return. This coupled with the powerhouse track In On It, also taking a different slant on the same theme. This song also includes the powerful lyrics ' I haven't been eating much this week, eating's for the strong, sleep's for the weak' a feeling many of us can relate to. These two tracks create an incredible close to what I think is one of the best albums to have come out in the last few years, and the best in the genre for a very, very long time. Overall, a flawless debut.
But it's just an opinion, right? if any of you have any requests for an album for me to review, let me know, I'll try and do as many as I possibly can.
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