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Absent Kid: I Burnt Down The Family Business

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A bloody brilliant debut from this Colchester five piece. Shards of Pavement mix freely with Idlewild to create a blazing mini-album. The skewered ghost of Colchester’s most famous sons Blur runs through the record like an old tape of b-sides and lost classics. Sonic Youth pop by for tea and biscuits. “So dust off all these riot shields and wait, cos love is just in videos we hate,” they spit with contempt.

Absent Kid still wear their influences proudly on their sleeves, but mix them freely with their own voice to arrive in a manner that rewards immediately and promises this band can only get better.

  • Absent Kid 8 / 10
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Absent Kid - I Burned Down The Family Business

Hey Darren,

Do you not think this review was a tad short?

marcofella | 19 Apr '05, 13:39 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Absent Kid - I Burned Down The Family Business

Why do Absent Kid not get any press despite winning that Diesel/NME award? I mean I realise the whole thing is a relative con, but when you consider Tom Vek has had some good press, why haven't Absent Kid? Not that I know anything about them obviously..
Dirtbomb | 20 Apr '05, 12:33 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Absent Kid - I Burned Down The Family Business

Tom Vek won the award in 2001, whereas Absent Kid won it in 2004... Part of the Diesel thing is helping to develop artists, so it does take a while. Also, as a friend of AK, I know that Richard, Absent Kid's guitarist broke his wrist a few weeks after winning the award, setting them back a little while... But they're back on track now, I've heard the album and it is a fantastic spunky little little thing, on a par with mini-albums like Idlewild's Captain or Ash's Trailer, so i guess they're set to get the press they deserve any time now.
Barsider | 23 Apr '05, 20:56 | Send note | Report this | Reply

Some people care!

Just a couple of plugs for fans of Absent Kid, there's an interview with them in the current issue of Noisyzine http://www.noisyzine.co.uk and they're playing Chinnery's, Southend on the 23rd Jan, £3 for four bands. Absolute bloody bargain.

Just to prove that the underground local press are still flying the flag.

Kerosene | 29 Nov '05, 22:45 | Send note | Report this | Reply