Valleyheart
Rock
Salem, Massachusetts
As we’re deep in the thickness of the “emo revival”, we cannot speak highly enough about what Valleyheart have been doing over the last 3-4 years. The Massachusetts now-trio came on our radar back in 2018 when their debut album Everyone I’ve Ever Loved made its way to us. Being an unapologetic nostalgic elder emo, not much in the genre has gripped me in some time, but that debut album brought me back into the fold with “Heaven & Hell” and the climatic “Drowned in Living Waters”. When you can combine two things that were paramount in my adolesecence (emo music and christianity) and put a more modern spin on it singing and talking about your struggles with faith, it was like the album was written for me.
Fast forward to June of this year, and we get the Sophomore album from the band titled Heal My Head, released on Tooth & Nail, and it picks up right where Everyone left off. The album is good… and good is a true understatement. It was easily be one of my top 10 albums come the end of the year, and the hype I have for these guys is off the charts. They belong on tour with those carrying the torch for rock music: your rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Turnstile, IDLES, etc. We can only hope the trajectory for the band remains high, because we need this, America. We need this in 2022 and beyond. And I, for one, am thankful we are in the here and now and we have these guys bridging the musical divide.
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