Zach Bryan Confirms New ‘With Heaven On Top’ EP is Coming Soon

Zach Bryan has provided further confirmation that he's in new music mode, with the ‘Open the Gate’ singer-songwriter revealing his new EP is coming “sooner than not”.

Could this mean we'll be able to stream the highly anticipated project this Friday? We'll have to wait and see, but in the meantime, Zach Bryan has offered us some more tantalising details about the EP, which is set to precede his 2025 studio album.

The EP will be called With Heaven On Top, with the project named after a popular unreleased teaser that Zach Bryan has been sharing across socials in recent months. Like his two November 2024 singles, ‘This World's A Giant’ and ‘High Road’, ‘With Heaven On Top’ features harmonising vocals from New York indie artist, Grumpy.

In the caption of a new Instagram post, Zach Bryan has paid tribute to Grumpy and three other musicians that have seemingly contributed to With Heaven On Top, “Grumpy, Keenan O'Meara, Hannah Lynn Cohen and Ana Monwah Lei are the best musicians of all time don’t @ me...With Heaven On Top the EP is out sooner than not”.

Keenan O'Meara is a fellow singer-songwriter who tends to lean towards the folkier side of the contemporary indie scene, while Hannah Lynn Cohen is a violinist who has collaborated with Bryan in the past. Ana Monwah Lei is a leading cellist based in New York, and given the fact that Grumpy also resides in New York, this might suggest that at least part of With Heaven On Top was recorded in the Big Apple.

The inclusion of a violinist and cellist in the mix implies this EP will feature a more built-out sound, with Zach Bryan continuing to explore new textures following the sparser, stripped-back feel of his acclaimed 2024 album, The Great American Bar Scene.

In addition to announcing that With Heaven On Top is on the horizon, the Oklahoma crooner has shared two more snippets of the previously teased ’Sante Fe’ and ‘Always Willin’. It seems these will be joining the title-track on the forthcoming EP, potentially alongside ‘Blue Jean Baby’, which dropped last month in celebration of Bryan's beloved Philadelphia Eagles securing their spot in the Super Bowl LIX.

Zach Bryan's full-length album, which is believed to be called Motorbreath, judging by a recent Matthew McConaughy-voiced snippet from an accompanying documentary of the same name, is expected to arrive later in 2025, with Bryan perhaps eyeing up a release date prior to his headlining Stagecoach set in late April.

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