Time is the enemy on 'Hiding With Boys'. Good job Creeper aren't wasting any.

Purple lights, camera, action. ‘Hiding With Boys’ is the first proper glimpse into the world of ‘Eternity, In Your Arms’ but that doesn’t mean it lets you stop to take in the sights. Following on from the one-shot attack of ‘Suzanne’, direct and to the point, the new track from Creeper moves in more mysterious ways. Opening with a darkside echo of ‘Suzanne’ before hitting the ground running, ‘Hiding With Boys’ is a song of acceptance, betrayal and harsh realities. Still set in the sanctuary of bedrooms and back alleys, the track paints time as the enemy. Fading youth and rose-tinted romances of old, the third cut from the band’s debut takes the fear of the future and uses it to escape.

‘Hiding With Boys’ ties together different visions under the same umbrella. There are still ideas a plenty, the distance traveled from start to end is massive and it’s almost impossible to trace the journey without getting lost in the adventure, but Creeper take it all in their stride. Despite the punk abandon, the spoken word refrain, the harmonies (oh, those harmonies) and the grand drama, ‘Hiding With Boys’ never feels overloaded. This group can break hearts with a single question and find power in simple fears. It would be easy to play it safe, to take Creeper outside into the light and dumb it down but this gang are smarter than that. It’s not the cries of “loving you is killing me” or the gentle unrequited ask of “do you ever think of me the way I think about you” that mean the world though, it’s the little pauses that follow. They’re fleeting but it’s where worlds reflect and collide. And if ‘Hiding With Boys’ is anything to go by, Creeper are going to causing a lot of collisions with ‘Eternity, In Your Arms’.