Sons Of Sevilla - Forever Heaven (Ubiquity) [Soul / Balearic]

There have been a few TSMM blog roads leading to Adrian Quesada's Austin studio, and Sons of Sevilla - English, southern Spain-residing, brothers Henry and Reuben Vaun Smith are the latest. The brothers hit the ground running in 2024 by releasing their debut album of hazy, lo-fi blues meets vintage acid-pop rock Lullabies For A Wildcat on the ever-great Ubiquity Records, and following it up last year with the similarly stoned, blue-eyed soul meets AOR-infused, yacht rock cosmic country delights of Street Light Moon.

Well, they're certainly not suffering from writer's block and have started the 2026 release schedule with a tasty double-A-sided single that similarly manages to fuse all the right sort of influences into a refreshingly retro antidote to the AI slop and generic modern music by numbers avalanche.

The single leads with my choice of the two, "Forever Heaven", another genre-fluid fusion led by sweet dreamy soul tones telling of affairs of the heart that should brighten up the cloudiest of days. It's a real end-of-night, smile-inducing, spirit-lifting joy, powered by uptempo soul percussion and a bumping bassline, funk-infusing guitar tickles and cosmic synths; all artfully combined, radiating optimism and daring you to dream of love-filled brighter days and which, for the sake of argument, I'm filing under Balearic. Discuss. Flip the single and the lads drop the tempo and gift us with the shapeshifting soul of "Changes" that can't decide whether it's Sunday morning schmaltz or a subtle Saturday night soul stomper, so wisely, and seamlessly, decides to be both.

Apparently there's more music to come this year, and I'm all ears.

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Playlist Companion

Find SOS in the Slow Balearic Playlist.