A few years prior to releasing their debut album What Lies Ahead of Me last June, New Jersey’s All Under Heaven teamed up with their labelmates Glare and Leaving Time on the shoegaze-focused Sunday Drive Records for the collaborative single “Show You My Pain.” That label cohesion continues today with the band’s newly announced split single with fellow Jerseyites High., with the former band’s “Moving On” and the latter’s “Someone You Adore” adhering to the Sunday Drive ethos of searing guitars, hard-hitting drums, and soft, pop-punk vocals relaying devastating lyrics.
“‘Moving On’ reflects on feelings of confidence and overcoming self doubt,” All Under Heaven vocalist Nick DeFrabritus shares of the imposter syndrome that underlies the group’s contribution to the split. “I tend to be very self conscious and have a low self esteem regardless of any success or failure. Whether that’s due to my mental health or the time we are living in; I’m not too sure. I am trying to regain my confidence and understand my worth through this song. Reassuring myself that I deserve to be here and I’m not going anywhere, regardless of what anyone thinks.”
“Someone You Adore” is a bit harder to pin down tonally, with its eerie verses giving way to a grungy chorus. “[It’s] about the quiet devastation of longing—when someone feels so close, but emotionally miles away,” explains High.’s vocalist Christian Castan. “I wrote it to sound like a memory you can’t stop replaying. ‘Perception can become its own kind of truth’—what we feel and what’s real aren’t always the same thing. Simple on purpose, to echo all things left unsaid.”
Check out both tracks below, or stream them here.
