Today, NYC power-popgaze trio Heaven have released their third studio album, Dream Aloud, via Little Cloud Record. Bandleader Matt Sumrow says of the LP, “The record was conceived in the dark depths of the pandemic, when all we could do was stay at home and work on projects and watch the end of the world on TV. It was created as a vision of hope and dreams, an escape from the reality we were in. It’s also a deliberate move back to a DIY way of making music. Realizing that facing the apocalypse, you have to rely on yourself to make things happen, make art happen, conjure your love and dreams.”
To celebrate the album’s release, the band has unveiled a music video for its title track, a song Sumrow wrote and recorded on his phone early one morning. It was initially a “hushed lullaby” before, in the company of Mikey Jones and Sonia Manalili, turning into a punchy rock haze. “It’s a Tibetan sand mandala,” Sumrow says, “building something beautiful then destroying it.”
The “Dream Aloud” music video was conceived and directed by Jeska Sand and filmed around NYC’s Lower East Side, East Village, and Coney Island. “Starring Jaqueline Valenti as the night angel, she is searching for something unknown not sure what she’ll find,” Sumrow adds. “It is about being in that liminal state after a period of loss or destruction where time slows. Wandering and searching for the thing that unlocks our imagination and propels us into action. Letting go and embracing what’s to come. Leaving it all behind.”
