Zach Bryan – With Heaven On Top (2xLP)

Zach Bryan's With Heaven On Top is his sixth studio album, a 25-song set written, recorded and produced by Bryan in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Arriving after 2024's The Great American Bar Scene, it finds him stretching his usual stripped-back approach into a larger, fuller sound without losing the plainspoken storytelling that made his name.

The scale matters here. AllMusic describes it as his most ambitious and personal record to date, and the running order backs that up: 25 songs across two LPs, with Bryan still at the center as sole credited creative force in the supplied sources. The songs move through love, loss, faith and homespun memory, but what stands out is how often he frames those themes through place and detail rather than grand statements.

Several sources point to a broader musical palette than earlier releases. Pitchfork notes horns, backing vocals and a more robust production, while tracks such as “Appetite,” “South and Pine” and “Plastic Cigarette” are singled out for showing how that expanded arrangement changes the emotional weight of the songs. Even with that bigger frame, this still reads as a Zach Bryan record first: direct, intimate and built on narrative writing.

Features

• 2xLP, Black Vinyl
• Gatefold jacket
• Stereo

Reviews

• It’s the sound of Zach Bryan figuring out how to paint on a larger canvas - Pitchfork
• returns with this latest project - The Guardian