{"id":2224659,"date":"2026-01-06T18:45:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2224659"},"modified":"2026-01-06T18:45:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T18:45:02","slug":"heavenly-announce-first-new-album-in-30-years-highway-to-heavenly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/heavenly-announce-first-new-album-in-30-years-highway-to-heavenly\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavenly Announce First New Album In 30 Years &#8216;Highway To Heavenly&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Along with their preceding group Talulah Gosh and their stateside collaborator Calvin Johnson, Heavenly were among the key players in the early-&#8217;90s twee pop movement. Their run abruptly ended in 1996 upon the death of founding drummer Mathew Fletcher, after which his bandmates announced they&#8217;d be retiring the Heavenly name. But over the past couple of years \u2014 perhaps partially motivated by their 1995 song &#8220;P.U.N.K. Girl&#8221; having a bit of a viral TikTok moment \u2014 Heavenly have slowly been coming out of retirement for their first <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2241943\/heavenly-announce-first-us-show-since-1995\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">US shows<\/a> since 1995 and their first <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2310921\/heavenly-share-first-new-songs-in-29-years\/music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new music<\/a> since 1996. Today, Heavenly have announced their first new full-length studio album in 30 years.<\/p>\n<p><em>Highway To Heavenly<\/em> is out next month and reunites original bandmates Amelia Fletcher, Peter Momtchiloff, Cathy Rogers, and Rob Pursey, joined by new drummer Ian Button. Today&#8217;s new single &#8220;Excuse Me&#8221; makes that long hiatus feel pretty short, abiding by the typical Heavenly formula of sticky pop melodies, a scrappy punk attitude, and a touch of heartache: &#8220;We never realized that\/ What we had would be the best it got\/ Now it is gone.&#8221; Listen to &#8220;Excuse Me&#8221; and see the full <em>Highway To Heavenly<\/em> tracklist below.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Heavenly \u2013 Excuse Me\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YdAviD0byWg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>TRACKLIST:<br \/>01 &#8220;Scene Stealing&#8221;<br \/>02 &#8220;Portland Town&#8221;<br \/>03 &#8220;Press Return&#8221;<br \/>04 &#8220;Skep Wax&#8221;<br \/>05 &#8220;Deflicted&#8221;<br \/>06 &#8220;Excuse Me&#8221;<br \/>07 &#8220;A Different Beat&#8221;<br \/>08 &#8220;Good Times&#8221;<br \/>09 &#8220;The Neverseen&#8221;<br \/>10 &#8220;She Is The One&#8221;<br \/>11 &#8220;That Last Day&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Highway To Heavenly<\/em> is out 2\/27 via skepwax040.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Alison Wonderland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source stereogum.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with their preceding group Talulah Gosh and their stateside collaborator Calvin Johnson, Heavenly were among the key players in the early-&#8217;90s twee pop movement. Their run abruptly ended in 1996 upon the death of founding drummer Mathew Fletcher, after which his bandmates announced they&#8217;d be retiring the Heavenly name. 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