".....the Seattle folky’s new EP Heaven Never Left Us, follow-up to his 2007 Cranium Miner’s Blues, is a fairly lo-fi affair that will continue to garner the crafty guitar player comparisons to the great Elliot Smith. Aaron Zig will likely showcase every song on the EP tonight at the show, and his performance alone will be well worth the price of admission."
~ Gabriel Arguelles, SSG, 2012

Heaven Never Left Us is the new E.P. from Seattle singer-songwriter Aaron Zig. Aaron Zig self-recorded and produced Heaven Never Left Us in his home studio. It is the follow-up to 2007’s full-length, Cranium Miner’s Blues, which was hailed by the Seattle Times as “having fascinating songs that journey Flaming Lips-style.” With a sound often compared to Elliot Smith, Devendra Banhart, and Neil Young, Zig engages his live audience with deft simplicity and transportive lyricism.

Comprised of fresh material, "Heaven Never Left Us" finds Zig returning to an intimate recording style in the vein of Iron & Wine and Nick Drake. Creaky chairs, breaths, mistakes and often-improvised lyrics aim to bring the listener into the artist's world, his home and his music. It marks the rebirth of his solo project after years playing with psychedelic folk-rock outfit, Weightless, and co-managing The Ballard Mine, a local recording studio, rehearsal space, and D.I.Y. venue. The layered approach of his former band was left behind for a recording that encompassed the flaws and imperfections of live recording. Casting off overly-clever production, Zig chose simple accompaniments to his live vocal and guitar takes.

Fan favorite "This Leaking Old Boat" kicks off the album. It was inspired by Zig’s travels in his friend’s 1980 Volvo station wagon, “Blueberry”. An imagined scene with friends, young and old, inspired the lines, “We’re old and we’re golden, we’re young and we’re free, same old mission, to be what we’ll be.” It’s a rally cry for friendship and self-acceptance above modern cultural ideals of individualism and financially-measured success. What follows are heart-felt songs about a musician secretly writing for his companions at the park, the endless search for meaning, and an ever-roaming heart. The record closes with the lost-love travelogue “Dark Side Of The Road”, a ballad hearkening to the Blakeian love songs of Van Morrison and Bob Dylan. Heaven Never Left Us is a promising new glimpse at an artist dedicated to the craft of songwriting.