‘Walking these old streets after dark, I never see it coming. I mourn every summer. Familiar haunts, comforts lost, memories embalmed. Life is repeated loss’ (We Have The Answer)

We Have The Answer is the debut album from Michigan’s Heavenly Blue and quite the statement it is.  Comprising seven members, including dual vocalists and three guitarists, the band have forged a sound rooted in densely layered, writhingly serpentine emotional hardcore.  Guitars that sweep from harsh aggression to melancholic reflection in an instant, while the rhythm section delivers a ferociously lock-step bottom-end that ensures a resolute core to the searing aural chaos.

Meanwhile, the dual vocalists explore the sense of a society trapped by inertia, both individual and collective, that prevents it from adequately responding to the social injustices that define it.  They inject a frenzied energy as they veer from raw screams to the melodically clean sung, and from the roared to the spoken word, relentlessly feeding off one another, intricately entwining and layering as if they are of a single mind.

The result is an album that retains a powerful coherency, despite its savage oscillations, and brims with moments of fierce clarity: the surging, infectious Static Voice Speaks To Static Me, the ravaged, fragile mid-song incantation that defines …And Like That, A Year Passed, and the seamless flow from the jaggedly rhythmic Heat Death Parade to the hauntingly sombre opening to closer, All Of The Pieces Break.