23rd April 2015: September 2014 saw the release of Midland’s Quintet The Hiding Place’s EP ‘So This Is Home‘: a positively widescreen presentation, brimming with sumptuous melodies and brazen guitar attacks, the quintet cleverly interspersing their post-hardcore with twinkling moments of downbeat ambience. “We wanted to write something that we felt sounded like ‘us’,” remarked Vocalist Dominic Webber; “Something personal that didn’t feel like it was confined to a particular genre. It feels as though we have drawn a line under our previous releases, as if they were merely us warming up: now we have refined our sound to reach this point.”
Ahead of a hometown headliner and a support slot for Welsh Post-Hardcore giants Funeral For A Friend, today sees the release of their lyric video for EP closer ‘Long Winters’ (see it HERE). Webber explains the root of the track’s hauntingly melancholic sound: “The song is about times in my life when I have felt abandoned one way or another, and about how sometimes it can be small thing that makes you realise that you are a strong enough person to deal with it, and that sometimes you just need to look inward to really find yourself. One of my favourite settings for fiction has always been post-apocalyptic and I really wanted to try to capture that vibe in these lyrics.”
Seek out The Hiding Place at the following dates:
Saturday 2nd May – Headline show – The Underground, Stoke
Thursday 14th May – Supporting Funeral For A Friend – The Sugarmill, Stoke
- Watch ‘Long Winters’ Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6uE-8smBwU
- New Single is taken from 2014 EP ‘So This Is Home’. Find it digitally on Spotify, Deezer, iTunes and get it physically at https://thehidingplace.bigcartel.com/
