Bleep

"Alt-country with only a bit of the 'alt', Absentee are never less than bright and lively musically. There is a momentum and hard edge lent to the sound by thunderous drumming and the brawny guitars lathered over it, but also a lovely twang to many of Schmotime’s best moments, with organ and horns pepping up most songs together with occasional lap steel and prettily cooed backing vocals"(Stylus)