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Sometimes you’ve got to unburden to ascend. There are heavy sounds and heavier themes at play on Invent Animate’s dizzying fourth album, but its remarkable momentum and atmosphere of release ensure we never get bogged down.
After a challenging few years for the Port Neches, Texas collective, with the departure of original vocalist Ben English in early 2018 and the integration of his replacement Marcus Vik, Heavener picks up where 2020’s Greyview left off, once again parrying adversity into attack. And, though there is much of their trademark darkness in the songwriting here,death, heartache, relationship collapse, existential anxiety – there’s also more emphatic promise of light above the clouds.