Rotterdamโs Rejection Ratio arrives like a transmission from another time, yet one that still hits with startling immediacy. Their new single โLove is Like Heavenโ isnโt new at allโnot technically. It was born in the late โ80s/early โ90s, captured live and unvarnished on a DAT tape, then left to sleep in a drawer for decades after vocalist Nelly faced hearing problems. But a dusty cassette resurfaced, the band reunited, and the original recordings were digitized and remastered by the very engineer who first pressed โrecord.โ What could have been nostalgia instead becomes revival: music that feels just as urgent now as it did then.
The track bursts open with thumping, insistent beats, no hesitation, no buildup, just a straight dive into motion. Dusty, jangling guitar strums join in, instantly conjuring that volatile alternative/new-wave aesthetic that defined late-20th-century underground rock. The sound is raw in the best sense, carrying grit under its fingernails.
Then Nelly steps in. Completely unique to anything you have heard before, she comes onto you soft yet strong, trembling yet certain, with a quivering vibrato like it could crack or bloom at any moment. This eccentricity is something idiosyncratic and magnetic. She sings with vulnerability, but also with this feverish urgency, as if love itself is a force sheโs trying to outrun and embrace at the same time. That hypnotic mix pulls you under; you donโt drift into this songโyouโre drawn.
As the track moves forward, the guitars grind and shimmer, the drums pound with restless energy, and the whole arrangement holds onto that timeless alternative-rock friction. The production preserves every raw corner of the era it came from, while the remaster gives the song enough clarity to shine now.
โLove is Like Heavenโ proves that some music doesnโt ageโit waits. And when it finally arrives, it hits with a truth only time can sharpen. Check out the cool music video.
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Review by: Naomi Joan