‘Heaven’ by Adam Lytle | New Album, ‘Altars’
Adam Lytle’s music exists in the space where beauty and darkness meet, a place where myth and reality blur into something hauntingly tangible. His upcoming sophomore album, ‘Altars,’ is an exploration of devotion, doubt, and the unraveling of certainty, wrapped in the spectral embrace of gothic Americana and kosmische psychedelia.
Today, Lytle unveils Altars’ second single, ‘Heaven,’ a slow-burning odyssey that twists and turns through a fever dream of existential searching. The song arrives with a immersive live performance video, recorded at the legendary Power Station Studios.
“‘Heaven’ is a critique in the form of a journey,” Lytle explains. “It follows a character seeking meaning in a world that insists it has all the answers. We tracked it live, and with each take, the sound became more unhinged, perfectly mirroring the arc of the story.”
The result is an intoxicating swirl of jagged guitars, ghostly synths, and propulsive rhythms, coalescing into a track that feels both expansive and claustrophobic. The sound is no accident—’Altars’ was produced with Jonathan Schenke (Liars, Parquet Courts), and its eleven tracks shift between quiet fragility and wild catharsis.
Lytle wrote the album while living in Paris and Arles, France, channeling an old-world mysticism into his songwriting. Alongside collaborators like guitarist Cameron Kapoor, drummer William Logan, and multi-instrumentalist Oli Deakin, he built a landscape filled with fractured lyric…
“This album is about devotion,” Lytle says. “Not just religious devotion, but the devotion to ideas, to people, to the things that shape us and undo us. It’s raw and unrelenting, but within that, there’s a strange, fragile beauty.”
‘Altars’ arrives soon, with vinyl and CD pre-orders now available.
Headline photo: Meg Molli
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