Heaven

Description

Heaven is a cassette-only split-album by the British indie rock bands Billy Penn’s Brother and Calvin’s Dream, independently released on Sticky Music in 1992. The album was recorded and mixed in Heaven, Scotland.

This is an interesting split tape called Heaven by Plankton Records. Side 1 is Billy Penn’s Brother, with four songs from Ruckus in Real Time. Billy Penn’s Brother played an excellent form of roots rock/alternative rock on their album, and this is four of the best. Kind of The Call meets Midnight Oil. I have heard all of those songs before. The real treat for me was side 2, which contains all of the songs from The First EP by Calvin’s Dream. I have been looking for this demo for a while, as I have their Fanatical CD and really like it. There is no liner information on the tape, so I had to pull some info from online. Also, I don’t know if these are the same versions of the songs as on the actual EP – but I pulled the information about this tape off of the website that was created by the person that collected all of these tapes I am digitizing, so that means I probably will see the actual tape soon enough. Until then, if someone has full scans of the j-card and tape from The First EP, I would love to see it. The sound is basically high quality alternative rock with a late 80s roots rock influence as well as an early 90s college rock influence. A lot of bands were doing this sound, just few were this good. [Christian Tape Underground, April 22, 2019]

Cassette tracklist:

Side One
A1. Billy Penn’s Brother – “When The War Is Over”
A2. Billy Penn’s Brother – “Taki To Treblinka”
A3. Billy Penn’s Brother – “Melon”
A4. Billy Penn’s Brother – “Walk On Water”

Side Two
B1. Calvin’s Dream – “Guilty”
B2. Calvin’s Dream – “Come Down Love”
B3. Calvin’s Dream – “Struggle”
B4. Calvin’s Dream – “The Waiting Room”