Holding Absence: “Music should take us out of the real world, not keep us in it!”

Recording new music during a global pandemic comes with its own challenges. It’s something that rising Welsh post-hardcore outfit Holding Absence narrowly avoided as they began work on the follow up to their acclaimed, 4K-rated debut album that they released back in March 2019. “We were quite lucky because we recorded just before COVID really hit,” explains frontman Lucas Woodland. ​“Not one single lyric on the album was shaped by COVID. Instead, it was shaped by sheer existential dread! I suppose that’s what we’re all living through right now too, actually.” Talk of dread aside, the band’s new album, The Greatest Mistake Of My Life, is an uplifting one, sounding bigger and bolder than anything the four-piece have recorded before. It’s a point borne out by their la...

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