/Rock-Pop/British / European

ABSENTEE
victory shorts

Release Date: 22/09/2008
Previously released: 08/09/2008

born to the sounds of barry manillow and the carpenters, raised on romantic comedies, and schooled in failed love and misfiring lust, absentee emerge well-versed in the rigours of romance with their finest album to date, 'victory shorts'. finding a seat somewhere between unreachable romanticism and hopeless realism, 'victory shorts' offers lush mini romantic tragedies for those who thought casablanca ended a little too abruptly. album opener 'shared' sets the scene with a couple pleased as punch that they found each other, until things take a darker turn with absentee smashing their way through 'boy, did she teach you nothing?' latest ep title-track 'bitchstealer' and 'love has had its way' in an attempt to get to the truth of the matter: happy endings don't come easy. 'the nurses don't notice a thing' takes us on a walk with someone looking for hope in a maternity wing. marked with the influence of johnny cash, pavement and the velvet underground, produced / engineered / mixed by nick terry (klaxons, libertines, bernard butler), and shot through with the originality and humour we've come to expect from absentee, 'victory shorts' stands alone as the band's strongest, most honest record yet.