A Welsh Band Spent a Decade Building a Fanbase — An AI Imitator Outpaced Them in Two Months

Bleeding Verse, a two-month-old AI project, cites Holding Absence as an influence — and they have more monthly listeners on ...
Music Ally

Holding Absence frontman reveals ‘insulting’ AI competition

Alt-rock / emo band Holding Absence have just over 853,000 monthly listeners on Spotify. Another band, Bleeding Verse, have ...

“It’s shocking”: Cardiff band decry the fact AI ‘band’ trained on their music overtakes them on Spotify

Concerning news from Wales, where a Cardiff-based rock band have discovered that an AI ‘band’ that has been modelled on their ...
Alternative Press

How Holding Absence made their most hopeful album yet

Holding Absence have a vision. The Welsh emo/post-hardcore act possess a keen sense of artistry, meaning each of their three albums has arrived as a cohesive aesthetic package; musically, thematically ...