Heyday represents the best of The Church's 80's output, matching (and bettering) the heights reached on albums such as the excellent The Blurred Crusade and the highly successful Starfish. Heyday contains a strong mix of upbeat, propulsive tunes such as punchy album opener Myrrh, the hard rocking Tantalized and the driving Columbus; alongside those more upbeat tunes are more mid tempo, melancholic tunes such as the gorgeous Disenchanted, the fantastic jangle guitars on Tristesse and the ominous album closer Roman. The production on this album is much improved over its predecessor Seance, which featured a now dated sounded heavily gated snare drum sound. Heyday however has a much warmer, richer sound with glorious backing vocals as well as the inclusion of strings horns on some tracks (Night of Lights, Tantalized), as well as The Church's frequent use of reveb soaked jangle guitars and glorious melodies While it didn't contain the successful singers that Starfish did (Reptile, Under the Milky Way), Heyday deserves to be just as well known and loved as that album, and stands as their best, most well-rounded and strongest set of songs