Holding Absence Release New Album 'Modern Life Is Lonely'
Friday, September 18th, 2026, South Wales rock trio Holding Absence has released their brand new album 'Modern Life Is Lonely' via Sumerian Records. This is the band's first album since joining forces with Sumerian Records. To celebrate the release of the album, the band shares music video for single "Heaven". You can view the music video below.
Frontman Lucas Woodland shares, "for our fourth and final single from MLIL, we're ecstatic to release our song "Heaven"! This one feels like a classic HA song, with a heart-wrenching message and an epic chorus, but of course, repackaged into our newer style. The verses lean heavily into dainty electronic styles, before we throw the mid-section back to an OG Holding Absence shoegaze breakdown. The video itself is the final instalment of our Y4 narrative, where we get to see our friend touchdown on earth and experience nature and music for the first time.”
“We pushed ourselves in ways that we’d never had before, while maintaining what that language of Holding Absence is. We’ll be introducing people to new sounds, and that’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time. But also, I think everything should inspire something, and with this record, as pretty famous victims of what AI is capable of, I wanted to do shit that no AI idiot would ever try and do, or even understand how to do. We’re at a new frontier where things are changing very fast, and we don’t know what this horrible sort of change entails for us. But where we are right now is essentially at a point of instinctive rebellion against that, and I’m intrigued about what comes next with that.”
MODERN LIFE IS LONELY
Holding Absence
Tracklisting:
1) Reanimate
2) Reflection
3) Heaven
4) Modern Life Is Lonely
5) Take Me With You
7) Whisper Of A Dream
8) Lucid Love
9) Scorched Earth
10) lullaby.int
11) Kyoto Snow
Upcoming Holding Absence Dates:
09.18 — Louisville, KY — Louder Than Life*
09.19 — St. Louis, MO — The Sovereign
09.20 — Chicago, IL — Riot Fest
09.22 — Grand Rapids, MI — Intersection
09.24 — Minneapolis, MN — Varsity
09.25 — Lawrence, KS — Granada
09.26 — Ft Collins, CO — Washington's
09.27 — Colorado Springs, CO — Black Sheep
09.29 — Las Vegas, NV — Area15
09.30 — Pomona, CA — Glass House
10.01 — Sacramento, CA — Aftershock*
10.02 — Los Angeles, CA — The Regent Theater
10.04 — Albuquerque, NM — Sunshine Theater
10.06 — San Antonio, TX — Paper Tiger
10.07 — Houston, TX — Warehouse Live
10.09 — Jacksonville, FL — Five
10.10 — Greensboro, NC — The Pyrle
10.11 — Allentown, PA — Archer Music Hall
10.13 — New York, NY — Irving Plaza
10.14 — Worcester, MA — The Palladium
10.15 — Pittsburgh, PA — Roxian
10.17 — Nashville, TN — Ceremony Fest
*Holding Absence only
