Seahaven "Seahaven"
Sometimes, inspiration just flows. That’s exactly what happened when Kyle Soto began writing what would become Seahaven’s self-titled fourth album. Once he made the first step with the song “Wedding Bells”, everything just sort of tumbled out of him. That was in around April of 2025, and over the next four or five months the vocalist/guitarist would sit in his home studio space and “churn out a song nose to tail in a night” until he’d made a base outline of the record.
While reasserting, redefining and reintroducing the identity of a band is something that self-titled albums often do, that wasn’t Seahaven’s express intentions with this one. Rather, the ideas that the band had had for a title never quite clicked, so they decided to lean into what it meant to not have one.
“Sonically, this album takes most of the elements from our previous releases and rolls them into one,” says Soto. “I feel like it accurately represents our sound, so it’s fitting to have it serve as a statement that says ‘This is the sound of the band.’ For a minute there, I wasn’t sure if we were going to roll with it, but then we decided to just own it. A lot of bands have self-titled albums that are hopefully their defining record—and hopefully for us that’s this one.”