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Building on the excellent foundations laid down by the band’s eponymous debut record, released in 2019, and following standalone singles ‘Gravity’ and ‘Birdcage’, the four-piece have returned with a group of songs that, in the view of vocalist Lucas Woodland, are the truest representation of Holding Absence to date. Inspired by a song of the same name that was recorded in the 1930s by actor and singer Dame Gracie Fields,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Greatest Mistake Of My Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis rooted in a time long before Holding Absence even existed. 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