High Heavens “Life is a Loan Shark” & “Hundred Bullets”

Sorrowful, but not drowning. There’s a bit of escapism and optimism, but not blindly. Floating in the realm of psychedelic, but it’s not heavily distorted. It’s a mellow sonic dreamland of all the flavours that life gifted them, all the reactions and aftermath with the cruel and unexpected that life tossed to you. It feels like a soundtrack in an independent film where you know you’ll have to sit through and watch alone, sober, just so you could feel those feelings.

High Heavens deliver two hauntingly poignant singles with “Life is a Loan Shark” and “Hundred Bullets.” The indie, atmospheric aesthetic and their vocal style reminds you a bit of PJ Harvey, but their luscious, synth-coiled dreamscape and jangly guitar is something else. Ethereal, gloomy, emotional vulnerable, and immersive, the feelings that High Heavens produce are vast, but it hits you hard in the soul.

“Life is a Loan Shark” features some of the most introspective lyrics. You can take it as far as to social commentary that stings a bit to an introspection with great compassion. No one truly gets their cup full, no matter what they have or what they look on the outside. It’s a slow dance that positions itself between reality and anticipation, a bit illusion, a bit moody, a bit introspection, a bit reality. How can you truly tell what is real and what’s not? but everything the High Heavens said are simply too true. It whispers into your souls, evoking a response that only those who have been through the lows and highs in life could understand.

“There’s a hundred bullets meant for me, a hundred bullets meant for me. I’ve been outrunning them my whole life, but they’re meant for me.” What the bullets represent in “Hundred Bullets” can be anything, but you can’t walk away from lyrics like that without feeling the heaviness of what it carries. “Seas of tears I’ve never cry,” “come to me in tides,” “wash my yellow smile.” It’s deep, poignant, and beautiful.