One Step Closer This Place You Know Cloudy Pink Vinyl Edition

For Wilkes-Barre's One Step Closer - the concept of home is complicated. "I've never felt so distant in my life," vocalist Ryan Savitskiscreams on the lead single "Pringle Street," a place in his hometownthat binds the album's lyrics to both a precise location and feeling ofdisplacement. On their first ever full-length album and debut for RunFor Cover This Place You Know, the band offers a modern comingof-age story about growing up and grasping both the known and theunknown.One Step Closer started in 2016 and in their short five years, Savitski, along with drummer Tommy Norton, bassist Brian Talipan andguitarists Ross Thompson & Grady Allen have come into their ownas a modern hardcore mainstay. Their 2019 EP `From Me To You'countered existing trends in exchange for a more melodic sound inthe vein of bands like Turning Point and Title Fight. They went onto open for Have Heart at the band's now legendary reunion showsthat summer, and joined bands like Knuckle Puck and Turnstile ontour 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 "I Feel So," the stakes aremade clear by the anchoring lyric `this place you know, sometimes ithides the truth and lets people go" - One Step Closer is attemptingto resolve the unresolvable anguish of moving on from everythingyou once knew.