This is the final single release from the excellent, excellent album ‘Schmotime’, and arguably the best example of the ABSENTEE ethic, a twisted bittersweet blend of dark humour and the unmentionable horrors of the dangerously insane.
Dan Michaelson’s deep vocal provides a perfect character act as the chillingly well thought out mental processes of a man who has bumped off his girlfriend numb fast in the face of the police knocking at the front door. This is a vivid scenario - well painted with forensic attention to significant detail, as the ‘Cracker’ style investigation gets underway and as the tale unfolds so perhaps does the realisation that it isn’t just some deep, dark fantasy.
Merciless humour and man-to-man police tactics are juxtaposed with the wandering authenticity of a killer’s mind in a haze of country-flavoured downbeat melodies. The lead riff that ensues is lazy and utterly gorgeous, taking the tune to a different level as the sense of abandon becomes ever wilder with the onset of a brassy mist of organ and music-box percussion.
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‘Rosie’ takes the depths, both musical and vocal and drags you deeper down with a ‘lullaby-noir’ about a woman who has let herself go. It mirrors the apathy of a life that’s not worth living and then fills it with organ driven tears of despair. It is, put simply, beautiful.
However dark (and this is positively satanic!!) it all goes to show that ABSENTEE truly are a force to be reckoned with.
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