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Absentee - Something To Bang (Memphis Industries)
UK release date: 27 February 2006
Absentee - Something To Bang

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A whisky-soaked alt country rock/power pop outfit from East London really could go either way, but in the case of Absentee, they cut it - they really could be from outback Nebraska. Something To Bang is a chuggy chunk of fuzzy guitars, parping horns and a lilting hammond organ.

"I'm tired of being a man, there's always something to bang/working up a sweat, you bring out the worst in me," singer Dan cheerfully complains in bass tones so gravelly as to bring a new enhanced meaning to the word 'gruff'.

There's a sly humour in the lyrics which would raise an ironic grin to even the hardest drinking, saddlesore rancher's lips. B-side You Try Sober is a classic country jaunt about the miseries of sobriety. It's how the Magic Numbers might sound if singer Romeo smoked 200 fags a day for a year and slowed his vocals down to half-speed; it's just as good as the track it accompanies, and if they can afford to have a song this good on a B-side, Absentee really must have something special.

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