With their awesome new single ‘FAMILY TREE’, HIGHWAYVES unravel bloodlines and buried truths through a storm that feels both visceral and strangely sacred. The track is a fevered elegy that begins with quiet dread and ends in cathartic ruin. It’s the kind of song that you feel in your bones.
The first verse treads carefully. There’s a tension baked into every breath, every note, as if something unspeakable sits just beyond the door. But this isn’t subtle for long as orchestral swells rise behind the sparse instrumentation, and the track blooms into something grand and operatic, dragging us into a swirl of memory, fear, and inherited ache.
HIGHWAYVES fuse musical elements like alchemists. There’s the bite of ‘90s alt-rock grit, the smoggy blur of shoegaze textures, and a cinematic, almost classical scale that builds with every movement. What makes it all land though, is their refusal to hide. Their lyrics are disarmingly open, delivered with a trembling sort of bravery.
The production is sharp. It has a closeness that makes even the track’s biggest moments feel personal. The sound breathes, stretches, and breaks apart in real-time, as if the music itself is coming to terms with its own history.
‘FAMILY TREE’ is a reckoning with trauma, legacy, and the things we carry because we were born into them. HIGHWAYVES explore these themes, one trembling lyric and thunderous crescendo at a time.
The song ends in spectacular fashion. What began with the feel of ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ through a shoegaze lens ends with full-on emotion that is all their own. Few artists dare to turn their pain into such an immersive experience. In ‘FAMILY TREE’, they’ve created a track that truly echoes in the mind of the listener.
