ARTIST: Absentstar
TITLE: Sea Trials
LABEL: Canvasback/Columbia
GENRE: Rock
BITRATE: 205kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 47m total
RELEASE DATE: 2008-04-15
RIP DATE: 2008-03-17
Track List
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A1. Half Life 3:24
A2. For God Sakes 4:08
A3. Don't Lock Me Out 4:08
A4. Life Support 3:50
A5. A Year From Now 3:26
A6. Everyone You Know 4:27
A7. Give In To Me 3:30
A8. If What You Mean is Harm 3:59
A9. Quietly Conceited 3:28
A10.If You Like It 4:31
A11.For The Moment 3:06
A12.All is Forgotten 5:48
Release Notes:
Canvasback Music/Columbia Records is readying the release of Sea Trials, the
major label debut album from the rising young Chicago-based rock band Absentstar
for early 2008.
Formed in 2005, Absentstar is Derek Ingersoll (vocals), Andy Dixon (guitars),
Marshall Hanbury, Jr. (guitars), Heath Hamilton (drums), and Noel Arnim
(bass/vocals). While some of the members met and started playing music together
in their Bedford, Indiana grade school, it wasn't until 1998 that they moved to
Chicago with the intention of recording and touring together as a band.
By 2005, the group-now expanded to five members-had released its own indie
debut, To All That Buy In, premiering Absentstar's distinctive blend of U.K.
musical refinement and American rock & roll energy.
Sea Trials was recorded with singer/songwriter/producer Dan Wilson at the
Terrarium Studio in Minneapolis and mixed by Michael Brauer (John Mayer,
Coldplay, My Morning Jacket, among others). Wilson, whose solo debut will come
in October on American Recordings, took home a Song Of The Year Grammy(R) in
February for co-writing "Not Ready To Make Nice" with the Dixie Chicks.