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Absentee are a band from London, signed to Memphis Industries. They are Dan Michaelson (vocals/guitar), Melinda Bronstein (vocals, keyboards, melodica, glockenspiel), Babak Ganjei (guitar/lap steel), Laurie Earle (bass) and Che Albrighton (drums). ==Career== Before forming the band, Michaelson and Bronstein collaborated to make the self-produced mini-album ''Hawaiian Disco''. Five songs from that mini-album, and other unreleased material was used in the 2003 film ''Twisted'', shown in the Raindance Film Festival.〔("Absentee" ), ''DrownedInSound.com''; URL accessed May 20, 2006.〕〔("Full Cast and Crew for Twisted (2003/I)" ), IMDB ; URL accessed May 20, 2006.〕 Later in 2010, the band contributed a song to ''Missed Connections'', a short film which is set to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.〔("Missed Connections website" )〕〔("Missed Connections (2010/I) - Soundtracks" ), IMDB〕 The band have had two previous major releases. ''Donkey Stock'' in 2005 was a six track EP, which helped get the band noticed. In 2006, the band released the album, ''Schmotime'', which was well received by the music press, including a 7.1 Pitchfork rating. Much was made of the up-beat nature of the songs, in stark contrast to the morbid nature of the lyrics. The album ''Schmotime'' was produced by James Ford, of Arctic Monkeys and Mystery Jets fame. They toured with The Magic Numbers, Brakes, Broken Family Band, Bloc Party and Silver Jews. When not recording and touring with Absentee, all the band members have side projects. Michaelson has Dan Michaelson and the Coastguards, Babak, Melinda and Laurie have Wet Paint and Melinda has The Bronsteins. In 2011, Michaelson released his debut solo album, ''Sudden Fiction''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Absentee (band)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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