SONG: "Only Ever After"
ARTIST: Placeholder
ALBUM: "Nothing Is Pure"
YEAR: 2012
PLACE OF ORIGIN: Lancaster, Pennsylvania
YEARS ACTIVE: 2011 - 2015
WHAT I THINK THE SONG IS ABOUT:
"Only Ever After" appears to be a song about never having your hopes and dreams ever come to fruition. It's kind of a depressing song because the vocalist appears to seek hope from those around him only to find out they all seem to be in the same funk as he's in. No one's life is going quite the way they had all hoped.
PLACEHOLDER DISCOGRAPHY (Full length albums only):
2012 - Nothing Is Pure (Better Days Records)
* did not chart on the Billboard 200
2013 - I Don't Need Forgiveness (Black Numbers Records)
* did not chart on the Billboard 200
2015 - Last Show Live (Dead Flowers Records)
* did not chart on the Billboard 200
MY THOUGHTS ON PLACEHOLDER:
Placeholder formed as a band back in 2011, hailing from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The band's first release was an EP in 2011 called "Demonstration". They followed that up with their full length debut, 2012's "Nothing Is Pure". The band squeezed another EP in between their debut album and their follow up album, 2013's "I Don't Need Forgiveness". In 2014, the band decided to call it quits but they did release a split single in 2015 as well as a live album, which was recorded from their very last show together. Placeholder was a very short-lived band, only three or four years together. Though the band members never thought they'd do anything more than play live shows locally, they were ecstatic that they got to tour all over the country and more for the brief time that they were a band. This is yet another band I discovered through the what seems to be defunct website, DyingScene.com. They were a good melodic punk band. Nothing spectacular about them but I dug their albums. I haven't heard any news from these guys since 2015 so they weren't lying when they said they were done!
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TEN PLACEHOLDER SONGS YOU SHOULD CHECK OUT:
1. Resent
2. Above
3. Caught The Crown
4. Give Up
5. I Feel
6. December 2011
7. Don't Look Back
8. Dying For Nothing
9. Weird Place
10. Only Ever After
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