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SELF-HELPLESSNESS

The timeline of Basement is one most emo bands could only daydream of replicating. A figurehead for one of the genre’s most lucrative labels, Run For Cover, the fivesome brewed an enormous underground following with two crash-hot albums that drew kids to their theatre shows like moths to a lamp – 2011’s I Wish I Could Stay Here and 2012’s Colourmeinkindness.

Their short-lived hiatus only made them more of a cult favourite, and when Promise Everything stunned critics and fans alike in 2015, Basement made a much-deserved crack into the mainstream.

Now under the guidance of the world’s

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