No Closer to Heaven
by The Wonder Years
- Type: Album
- Released: 4 September 2015
- Label: Hopeless
- Country: United States
- Length: 45:15
- Community rating: 4.11/5 from 8 ratings
Artists on this release: Steve Evetts
Album Notes & Community Reviews
The Wonder Years deliver a passionate and introspective concept album with 'No Closer to Heaven', a landmark work of alternative rock and pop punk. The record delves deep into themes of death, grief, and self-hatred with poetic, sentimental lyrics, creating an energetic yet melancholic and funereal atmosphere.
Genres
Descriptors: death, conceptual, existential, melodic, anti-religious, funereal, male-vocalist, conscious, grief, emotive, bombastic, distorted, storytelling
Tracklist
- Brothers & (1:31)
- Cardinals (3:14)
- A Song For Patsy Cline (3:52)
- I Don't Like Who I Was Then (3:37)
- Cigarettes & Saints (5:02)
- The Bluest Things on Earth (3:10)
- A Song for Ernest Hemingway (2:51)
- Thanks for the Ride (3:31)
- Stained Glass Ceilings (4:45)
- I Wanted So Badly to be Brave (3:46)
- You in January (3:14)
- Palm Reader (4:14)
- No Closer To Heaven (2:22)
Credits
- The Wonder Years - primary artist, written-by
- Casey Cavaliere - band [the wonder years]
- Josh Martin - band [the wonder years]
- Matt Brasch - band [the wonder years]
- Mike Kennedy - band [the wonder years]
- Nick Steinborn - band [the wonder years]
- Dan Campbell - band [the wonder years], lyrics by
- Dave Shapiro - booking
- Sean Goulding - booking [uk/eu]
- Allan Hessler - engineer [additional]
- Mike Cortada - illustration, design/illustration
- Werewolf Girlfriend - layout, graphic design
- Craig Monahan - management
- Alan Douches - mastered by, mastering
- Phil Nicolo - mixed by
- Megan Thompson - photography by, photography
- Steve Evetts - producer, engineer, electric piano [rhodes]
- Allison Weiss - vocals [additional group]
- Brett Jones - vocals [additional group], additional other vocals vocal
- Charlie Saxton - vocals [additional group], additional other vocals vocal
- David Summers - vocals [additional group]
- Joanna Katcher - vocals [additional group], additional other vocals vocal
- Natalie Schaffer - vocals [additional group], additional other vocals vocal
- Jason Aalon Butler - vocals [additional], lyrics by [additional]
- Dave Summers - additional other vocals vocal
- John鈥怉llison Weiss - additional other vocals vocal