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ABSENTEE - Schmotime
| Times Online | | Romeo of the Magic Numbers may have once played bass for them, but East London’s Absentee are anything but wistful and lovelorn on their excellent debut album. Instead, Dan Michaelson and his crew are entertainingly earthbound, given to romanticising the bleak realities of faintly boho livesin songs such as We Should Never Have Children and More Troubles....full text |
| | Drowned in sound | | As Absentee vocalist Dan Michaelson is testament to, there's something really quite hypnotic about a guy with a deep voice. I just thought I’d get that out of the way. As even though this is the sort of album than twinkles melancholically in every dusty corner of its frazzled, expansive sound, it’s his voice that immediately drags you ear-first into their bleak yet beautiful world....full text |
| | SoundsXP | | On Schmotime Absentee step up to the plate and prove that it's possible to put together something vital, in every sense, of the word from various found bits from the history of indie-rock and a wicked sense of humour....full text |
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