[5] The album was officially announced on 20 October 2022, alongside a second single "I Saw" and a music video directed by Austrian-Nigerian artist David Uzochukwu.

"[12] Loud and Quiet Mag gave the album 9/10, calling it "a brilliant return from a gold-standard band in UK music".

[17] Reviewing the album for AllMusic, Andy Kellman noted, "Heavy Heavy pulls in the listener with an empathetic lust for life that, whether brimming with optimism, steeling for a threat to survival, or reckoning with a perceived futility of existence, somehow never wavers.

"[10] For DIY Magazine, Sean Kerwick described it as, " Unique, raw and totally joyous.

Succinct and underpinned by a catchy melodic structure, it continues Young Fathers' peerless run of singular albums and further cements them as one of the more unique acts to exist today.