Their rise has been meteoric from their initial beginnings in Cardiff and the buzz around them has only gotten louder with the reveal of their much more colourful aesthetic and each single. Where their self-titled debut blended crunching post-hardcore with soaring melody, this is a natural progression from there that dials down the raw heaviness and instead turns the emotion up to eleven. The elements that made that debut so exciting are still here; their command of melody along with the emotional honesty and intensity are all present in spades. Perhaps the most obvious change is that this is a much more mature album than its predecessor, unafraid to tackle the trials and tribulations of life head on. In their own words, The Greatest Mistake Of My Life – and Holding Absence as a band – are about emotion.

More specifically, tackling not just the love and heartbreak that informed their debut but about all emotions and learning to live with these. It’s that exact sentiment that leads them to open the first proper track, ‘Celebration Song’, with the wonderfully life-affirming “I’m alive” atop a shimmering, expansive soundscape. It’s a bold opening statement to say the least, but they’re not done. From here it’s onto the slow burning, ethereal ‘Curse Me With Your Kiss’, an ode to “the one that got away” and dealing with the aftereffects of the heartbreak it can cause, with lush synth and string arrangements forming a backdrop. ‘Afterlife’ forms a counterpart to this in some ways; the band describe it as a song about a love that transcends death and knowing the person watches on afterwards. It’s also the best song they’ve ever written – so far – with a stomping beat and a rousing, transcendent chorus.