One Step Closer - This Place You Know - Pink - VINYL LP

For Wilkes-Barre's One Step Closer - the concept of home is complicated. InchI've never felt so distant in my life,Inch vocalist Ryan Savitski screams on the lead single InchPringle Street,Inch a place in his hometown that binds the album's lyrics to both a precise location and feeling of displacement. On their first ever full-length album and debut for Run For Cover This Place You Know, the band offers a modern coming-of-age story about growing up and grasping both the known and the unknown. One Step Closer started in 2016 and in their short five years, Savitski, along with drummer Tommy Norton, bassist Brian Talipan and guitarists Ross Thompson & Grady Allen have come into their own as a modern hardcore mainstay. Their 2019 EP 'From Me To You' countered existing trends in exchange for a more melodic sound in the vein of bands like Turning Point and Title Fight. They went on to open for Have Heart at the band's now legendary reunion shows that summer, and joined bands like Knuckle Puck and Turnstile on tour before pausing to write their debut album.This Place You Know grapples with the weight of themes like isolation, depression, and loss - all amplified by driving bass lines, emphatic guitar riffs and unwavering drumming performed by the band. From the first moments of album opener InchI Feel So,Inch the stakes are made clear by the anchoring lyric 'this place you know, sometimes it hides the truth and let's people goInch - One Step Closer is attempting to resolve the unresolvable anguish of moving on from everything you once knew. Album Tracks 1. I Feel So 2. Lead to Gray 3. Leave Me Behind 4. Home for the Night 5. Pringle Street 6. Hereafter 7. Time Spent, Too Long 8. Autumn 9. Chrysanthemum 10. As the City Sleeps

Album Tracks 1. Color You 2. Leap Years 3. Blur My Memory 4. The Gate 5. Your Hazel Tree 6. Orange Leaf 7. Esruc 8. Slow to Let Go 9. Topanga 10. Giant's Despair 11. So Far from Me

One Step Closer signal a sea change with Songs for theWillow. With last year's This Place You Know, the bandhad already mastered a unique stripe of mournful melodichardcore informed by eclectic emo influences. But onSongs for the Willow, they've tapped into a dynamic,emotionally powerful, and sonically intricate post-hardcorespace inhabited by the charged aura and artistic nuance oflandmark early 2010s records like Title Fight's Floral Greenand Touché Amoré's Is Survived By. But ultimately, Songs forthe Willow moves this sound forward into new territory.While frontman Ryan Savitski explored clean singing on ThisPlace You Know, he expands his vocal repertoire furtherhere, pushing himself to an even wider range of styles andmethods, from soaring highs to breathy lows and rousingharmonies. He makes for a spirited lead and consistentpresence while guitar work from himself, Ross Thompsonand newcomer Colman O'Brien weave sundry, compellinglayers, never content to linger on one riff for too long.InchAll three songs revolve around the problems that touringso much this last year have caused,Inch Savitski says ofthe thematic melancholy running through the EP. InchLosingrelationships, losing band members, losing a sense ofwhat this band even means to everyone.Inch Savitski is stillgrateful for the growth his band experienced-they madememorable appearances on some of hardcore's biggeststages (Sound and Fury, This Is Hardcore, and Outbreakfestivals), supported scene staples on tour (Comeback Kid,Drug Church, Terror), and had This Place You Know landon respected publications' Best of 2022 lists (Stereogum,BrooklynVegan). But Savitski also recognizes the sacrificesthey made along the way, and that struggle imbues itself inthe EP's desperate tone. InchI feel like this last year was the firsttime we've truly felt like a real band, but there were so manyissues underlying that it made i