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Continue Normal Living | Absent City

Continue Normal Living by Absent City, released 09 October 2020 1. Inner World 2. California Afternoons 3. Ticker Tape Parade 4. Tomorrow 5. Beam of Light 6. Empire Line 7. No Harm 8. Modern Art 9. Solid Ground 10. Strike Absent City’s debut full-length, Continue Normal Living, is an album of tender dreams and precarious schemes. In glimmering, intricate guitar pop that brings to mind Yo La Tengo, Luna, the Clientele, Electrelane, or the Go-Betweens, the record reveals itself to be many things at once: prophecy and lament, declaration of hope and survey of self-limitation, a course toward an inscrutable future and a spotty odyssey of unexpected return. In 2014, following the fracture of his Brooklyn dream pop band, Tiger Dare, Bay Area native Henry Freedland found himself generally wrecked: working an impossible job, romantically marooned, isolated by anxious inaction. But late at night in his tiny apartment, he kept writing music that sought answers amid chaos. Songs about fighti