Absentee - Schmotime

You've not heard anything quite like this. Voice-wise the singer is a like a weird combination of Lou Reed, Jonathan Richman and that irritating guy from Crash Test Dummies---but this is NOT the least bit grating. Enthralling is more like it. "8 out of 10. 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. You know the score, like Tom Waits trying his best to front Grandaddy and not scare the listener senseless.. Sure, theirs is a world full of shattered hearts, even-more-shattered dreams and desperation to escape. But for the sheer gorgeousness of the music it creates, it�s a place worth visiting at the first chance."-DrownedInSound. "8 out of 10... Schmotime is an assured and classy debut: the very things that go into making the Britrock �scene� these days � spiky guitar noise, yelping David Byrne-isms � are eschewed in favour of what makes the British British � resignation, resolve and a desert-dry wit. And Schmotime is therefore guaranteed a place in my affection, if nothing else, and one can almost imagine that being just sufficient for Absentee."-NoRipChord.

"It would be so easy for everything else on Schmotime to take a back seat to Dan Michaelson�s voice. His extraordinarily deep, gruff vocals drip with weariness, perfectly suiting a lot of the subjects on offer: drunken, dead-end relationships; self-hatred; infidelity; and murder investigations among them. �Hey Tramp,� proves that he can carry a song himself�making the otherwise slightly charisma-free acoustic lament a captivating one. The best thing about Schmotime though, is that it does so much more than coast on his subterranean drawl�and rarely sounds weary at all."-Stylus. Definitely give this a close look!

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