Product Description

Born to the sounds of Barry Manillow and The Carpenters, raised on romantic comedies, and schooled in failed love and misfiring lust, Absentee emerges well-versed in the rigors of romance with their finest album to date, Victory Shorts. Finding a seat between unreachable romanticism and hopeless realism, Victory Shorts offers lush mini romantic tragedies for those who thought Casablanca ended a little too abruptly. 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.

Review

Absentee's very existence makes the world a better place. 9/10. --NME Magazine
Like Lou Reed with grubbier fingerprints. Four stars. --Q Magazine