Everybody Is Going to Heaven

Personnel: Ill Will (percussion).Audio Mixers: Will Yip; Vince Ratti.Recording information: Studio 4 Recording, Conshohocken, PA.Midwestern indie rock outfit Citizen follow up their well-regarded 2012 debut Youth with Everybody Is Going to Heaven, a ten-song set that draws out their complexities and further distances them from their emo and pop-punk beginnings. With their members spread out between the two iconic Rust Belt cities of Detroit and Toledo, Citizen produce a sound as dark and brooding as a late-night drive down the I-75 corridor that separates their hometowns. As with their earlier releases, this record was produced by Will Yip who, earlier in 2015, made similar efforts to usher forward-thinking punk and hardcore-rooted bands into uncharted territory, most notably releases by Turnover and Title Fight. Like those bands, Citizen hope to reestablish themselves outside of a set of genres that can become quite suffocating in their criteria. Everybody Is Going to Heaven opens wit