Holding Absence: Mistakes, regrets, and the making of Britain’s next breakout band

“Holding Absence isn’t a sad band – that’s something I want to make clear from the outset.” Lucas Woodland is all too aware of the perceptions that form when your band is adorned with such labels as “emo newcomers” and “the next My Chemical Romance”. Those descriptions are no bad thing, of course, but when they’re combined with a debut album centred around the concepts of love and heartbreak, featuring songs with titles such as Your Love (Has Ruined My Life), it’s all too easy for the uninitiated to write you off as a bunch of angsty young men yet to properly grow up. But that’s now what Holding Absence are about. Since forming in Cardiff in 2015, the four-piece – vocalist Lucas, guitarist Scott Carey, bassist Ben Elliott and drummer Ash Green – have been honing a sound that blends cr...

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