Divided Heaven

Moments, ideas from the cutting room floor… This collection of Divided Heaven songs is lovingly all over the place; a beautiful mess. These 14 songs were previously released as singles, compilation tracks & EPs. Some were released for charity campaigns & some for no good reason at all. Some we’ve always loved & some we loved, then hated & have grown to love again. The four Divided Heaven Moments, ideas from the cutting room floor… This collection of Divided Heaven songs is lovingly all over the place; a beautiful mess. These 14 songs were previously released as singles, compilation tracks & EPs. Some were released for charity campaigns & some for no good reason at all. Some we’ve always loved & some we loved, then hated & have grown to love again. The four Divided Heaven albums, A Rival City (2011), Youngblood (2014), Cold War (2018) & Oblivion (2022), are unique unto themselves & very different from one another. To me, the songs in this collection take me back to times between each of those album cycles; the times where things get creative and weird. Myself, my bandmates & our producers have always tried to shed the ‘should do’ &  instead focus on doing the damned things, turning moments & ideas into reality. Cover Cyndi Lauper? Let’s get it! Write a 4-minute song about the intellectual anti-fascist group known as The White Rose? Hell yes! Re-write & re-record a song for the third time in honor of our late friend, Emily? Yes. Turn a classic Oi! Song into a children’s lullaby with Jared Hart? Absolutely! I’ll admit, this collection is difficult to define but that makes it fun. Now felt like the right time to properly release this collection as a means of reflection on the past decade plus of Divided Heaven. Thank you for sharing this moment. As always, the best is yet to come…

Jeff Berman, December 2023