Heart to Gold

From Minneapolis, Heart to Gold works in the space where lo-fi bedroom recording meets the brisk, hook-driven energy of pop punk. Grant Whiteoak is the name attached to the project, and that pairing of genres runs through the catalogue: rough, unpolished textures set against songs with a pop punk shape. For a newcomer, the tension between home-recorded roughness and punk-pop directness is the most useful place to start.

The catalogue begins with the Still Stuck EP, released in 2016, followed by the album COMP in 2018. Tom arrived in 2022, and the most recent entry is Free Help, an album from 2024. Four releases across roughly eight years form a steady run of output, and each title marks a separate chapter in the band's discography. Listeners curious about the project can start with the early EP and track how the material shifts from one record to the next across the albums that followed, then arrive at Free Help as the latest statement.