INHEAVEN - Bitter Town

Escapism runs through the veins of anyone picking up a guitar and stamping their foot down on as many pedals as they can find. It’s a default mode for jumped up kids wanting to get out of the tired and frustrated everyday. INHEAVEN, however, don’t just dream big. They act like there’s one train left out of town and they’ve four precious minutes to catch it.

With ‘Bitter Town’, the South London group sing about how everything around them is “made out of plastic”, how love is the only key to happiness that they can find. Everything’s delivered with bombast, spiralling guitars nestling up next to the clouds. With Jesus and the Mary Chain-style broad strokes, they’ve flown out of dull old suburbia in the blink of an eye. “All I know is I’ve got you,” they bark. This is a closing film sequence, a road trip soundtrack and a gigantic mission statement rolled up into one bolshy introduction.