13.07.2025
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Dave Pen - No Hiding

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Dave Pen - No Hiding

Dave Pen is a south coast-based vocalist and guitarist who is also one half of BirdPen and co-frontman with the experimental trip-rock collective Archive, who have built a huge continental fanbase across three decades of activity that has seen them sell out arena shows and achieve Top 10 chart success in multiple territories. He has also made two albums as We Are Bodies with the composer Robin Foster.

'No Hiding' is the first single to be issued from an upcoming solo album by Pen entitled ‘Life Inside The Feeder Mind’. Out in October, it comes four years after ‘Abran Wish & The Light Party’, a conceptual record that marked his solo debut.

“I wrote ‘No Hiding’ at a time when I couldn’t help but see images of the things I love being burnt and turning black,” he explains. “Sometimes things come out dark and you have to let them worm their way out, face what you’re scared of, take a breath, stand up and hold on. I feel this is what this song does.”

Traversing alternative and progressive rock, atmospheric and epic post-punk, subtle psychedelia and electronica, ‘Life Inside The Feeder Mind’ comes across as a broodingly intense yet spatial sounding progression from his solo debut. Pen notes that “these new songs come from a dark and often confused state of mind. Our world is one of continued reminders of growing uncertainty, so I used the writing of them as some sort of sonic therapy. After all, aren’t all our brains in constant feed mode, with our mouths wide open to be drip-fed fear and worry, with just an occasional morsel of hope?”

‘Life Inside The Feeder Mind’ was written, recorded and produced at Pen’s home studio in Southampton and mastered in Stockholm, Sweden. The album will be released on limited edition coloured vinyl and as a digital download.

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