Iconic emo band Seahaven of Torrance, California, released a new single, “Long Goodbye.” Mixed by Will Yip, the track reflects on the emotional toll of a complicated relationship and feelings of residual guilt. Previously, Seahaven released two reinvented songs from their 2020 album Halo of Hurt, which was released via Pure Noise Records. The band reworked the songs to explore a more vulnerable side of themselves and allow listeners to go on an entirely different journey through their music. 

Halo of Hurt was a gripping chapter for Seahaven and their evolution as a band. The album had the same menace, astrality, and magic that their music in the early 2010s had. The adventurous rock album forces listeners to grapple with their inner demons and feelings of self-doubt. “In Halo of Hurt, there’s some underlying anxiety from coming up short after 2014,” lead vocalist Kyle Soto admits. “I wanted to bring it back to the beginning of the band — a revived version of our younger selves in my garage in 2009. No timelines, no pressure. No need to fit a certain mould.”

Sonically, the leap from their gritty, cathartic 2011 debut LP Winter Forever to their 2014 Reverie Lagoon: Music For Escapism Only, which is full of fireside and nocturnal soundscapes, turned a lot of heads throughout the scene. The albums were so renowned that they left the band with a near-impossible act to follow. Live performances became few and far between, and at the start of 2020, it had been over half a decade since these musical shapeshifters had released a new album. Fans began to fear that it was all over for the four-piece, and Seahaven wondered if it was the end for themselves, too. 

“I don’t even know if I picked up a guitar for two and a half years,” shares Soto. Chat with the members of Seahaven – Soto, guitarist Cody Christian, bassist Mike DeBartolo, and drummer Eric Findlay – and they’ll refer to this as their “dark period,” a time where they trashed an album’s worth of demos, adjourned an ongoing label search, and resigned to the possibility of Reverie Lagoon riding off into the sunset as their unintended swan song. “We didn’t know what direction we wanted to go in. We did a summer tour in 2016, and when it was over, we thought that was the end.” 

Come 2018, the band received an invitation to open for Man Overboard, and that pulled Seahaven from their hibernation. “I was really feeling the nerves because it had been so long since we were out onstage in front of people,” Soto says. “I remember sitting with Cody in the green room and kind of tripping out. Then you hit the first chord and all of a sudden you’re back in your element.” 

The tour run with Man Overboard rejuvenated the band and inspired them to book their own headline shows. To end their year, Seahaven played a pair of successful shows in Los Angeles and packed the venues with familiar fans. An opportunity to connect with Pure Noise Records presented itself while they were catching their friend Balance and Composure’s farewell tour in Pomona. They had a conversation with the founder of the label, and long-time Seahaven fan, Jake Round, who was interested in releasing a project with the band. “He gave us complete freedom to do whatever we wanted,” Soto says. “That’s pretty much all we needed.” 

The final step was returning to Costa Rica – the site of their 2016 recording session that they left empty-handed – to play a well-received show in April 2019 to many friends and family. Soto frequently visits this area since he is half Costa Rican – “They have a cool little scene down there that follows indie and hardcore,” he says – and their San Jose show finally completed the revival cycle for the band. With a new sense of inspiration, the band released Halo Of Hurt, which overflows with intrigue and energy. 

Only days before the country found itself in an indefinite lockdown in 2020, Seahaven wrapped up their self-produced LP at Another Recording Company in Omaha, Nebraska. While the details of how the band will bring Halo of Hurt to life live still live in the obscure, the band’s intent is anything but. “Our fans’ online presence has been a big reason for this whole process,” Soto says. “Fans being inquisitive, hoping and wishing: ‘Is there a new release? I thought you guys went and did a record in Costa Rica?’ They never fizzled out. We knew people still cared.” 

Seahaven will embark on a tour of North America this winter, taking in eighteen shows from California to New York. Full dates are below:

21st January 2026 – Observatory – Santa Ana – USA
22nd January 2026 – Valley Bar – Phoenix – USA
23rd January 2026 – House of Blues Voodoo Room – San Diego – USA SOLD OUT
24th January 2026 – Teragram Ballroom – Los Angeles – USA SOLD OUT
25th January 2026 – The Chapel – San Francisco – USA
29th January 2026 – Subterranean – Chicago – USA
30th January 2026 – Blind Pig – Ann Arbor – USA
31st January 2026 – The Garrison – Toronto – Canada
2nd February 2026 – The Sinclair – Cambridge – USA
3rd February 2026 – Archer Music Hall – Allentown – USA
4th February 2026 – Racket – New York – USA
5th February 2026 – The Foundry at The Fillmore – Philadelphia – USA
6th February 2026 – A&R Music Bar – Columbus – USA
7th February 2026 – DRKMTTR – Nashville – USA
9th February 2026 – Dada – Dallas – USA
10th February 2026- White Oak Music Hall- Houston- USA
11th February 2026 – 29th Street Ballroom – Austin – USA
12th February 2026 – Paper Tiger – San Antonio – USA

The band also recently announced their first U.K. tour in 11 years and will play six shows across the U.K., including London’s Oslo.

SEAHAVEN TOUR DATES 2026

20th April 2026 – Bodega – Nottingham – United Kingdom
21st April 2026 – Nice N Sleazy – Glasgow – United Kingdom
22nd April 2026 – YES – Manchester – United Kingdom
23rd April 2026 – Belgrave Music Hall – Leeds – United Kingdom
24th April 2026 – Exchange – Bristol – United Kingdom
25th April 2026 – Oslo – London – United Kingdom