When announcing his sixth studio album, With Heaven on Top, on Instagram earlier this week, Zach Bryan added the disclaimer, “Hope you don’t hate it.” Now that the followup to 2024’s The Great American Bar Scene has arrived.
With Heaven on Top spans 25 tracks. Bryan tends to prefer an overloaded album, as evidenced by the 19-song track list on The Great American Bar Scene and the 16-song track list on Zach Bryan (2023) — and especially by the 34 entries on 2022’s American Heartbreak.
After the rapid release of three studio albums in the span of three years, not counting a flurry of EPs and live recordings, Bryan mostly took last year off to recalibrate. He still racked up a few headlines regarding his high-profile break-up…