The members of Citizen are split between Toledo, Ohio and Detroit, Michigan and they’ve traditionally made music that hews closely to their Midwestern roots. Their 2013 debut Youth was a burly mix of bratty pop-punk and meandering emo, two structures endemic to the middle parts of the United States, but their second LP Everybody Is Going to Heaven draws on influences a little more coastal. Folding in overcast guitar lines and largely taming their vocals to more breathy coos pushes them just a little closer to the downtrodden realms of more wiry shoegaze, not unlike similarly punk-rooted revivalists like Nothing and Title Fight.
That record will be out in full on June 23 on Run For Cover Records — currently available for both physical and digital pre-order — but it’s streaming in full now right here.
