Heavy Love is the fourth studio album by American rock band Man Overboard.

[3] Shortly afterwards, Man Overboard went on the Heart Attack tour in North America throughout May and June.

In an October interview with Alternative Press, vocalist/guitarist Zac Eisenstein revealed the band were writing and demoing.

[7] While working out where to take their new material, Man Overboard was unsure how to "do justice to the emotions we were feeling", Collier revealed.

[5] For this new album, Bill Stevenson had the band play the songs live in the studio, instead of having them multitrack and listening to the finished result.

[5] Collier mentioned that the group were "figur[ing] out how to transition back into being a rock band".

[18] The band played in Japan in August and in Australia and New Zealand in September, supporting The Story So Far.

[19] In November, the band went on a tour of the US east coast with support from A Loss for Words, Northbound and WATERMEDOWN.

[20] Alternative Press reviewer Greg Pratt states, the album "move[s] [the band] forward ever so slightly ...

[22] Mischa Pearlman of Rock Sound said the band were "firmly shutting the door on their adolescence" with the new album.