heaven // alone Let Vulnerability Breathe Through the Post-Hardcore Rupture of ‘escaping myself’

heaven // alone refuse to sit still inside any neat genre tag. Emo, post-rock, grunge, metal, post-hardcore, whichever pigeonhole gets dragged out, their sound pushes straight past it. On escaping myself, that viscerally expansive, evocatively intense aesthetic lands with the force of a bad thought looping at 3 am, then mutating into a primal communication with the void. For an artist working with this much emotional exposure, there’s nothing mild-mannered about the way they let the weight of the track speak for itself. Opening with an augmentation on the sludgy Seattle grunge sound, escaping myself winds into a melodic post-rock intersection where the vulnerability the title so cuttingly alludes to gets the room it needs to breathe. That sense of emotional suspension soon gives way to the point where the screamo vocals bleed across the adrenalised volition in the post-hardcore instrumentation, tearing through the track with a fevered urgency that you’re bound to catch. For anyone who has ever felt plagued by their own consciousness and pleaded for a way to disconnect from their past, present, and future, this will hit hard enough to warrant a GBH charge. escaping myself is now available on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify. […]

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