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A slog, slugfest, or time of their lives....call it what you will. But after spending most of 2006 through 2008 touring across the country and sharing the stage with bands like Good Charlotte, Panic at the Disco, Lifehouse, Third Eye Blind and Coheed and Cambria (and playing for thousands of people along the way) Absentstar was depleted. Sitting backstage before a show at the Nokia Theater in New York City, the band silently took stock of where they had been, and where exactly they wanted to go. Despite the many successes they had experienced, they had not yet risen to their full potential. Absentstar decided what was needed was a new design, a new direction, a new goal. When the last note of the tour was played, the last piece of gear packed into the trailer, Absentstar returned home to Chicago and took a short break to regroup, recharge and plot their course, looking for a new beginning of sorts. Absentstar believed it was time for new songs and a new album, something to inspire audiences. A few songwriting sessions invigorated the band, and in the winter of 2008 they entered the studio to lay down the tracks that would become their third album, entitled "Where We Begin". With fresh minds and ears, the songs they put together would represent feelings, thoughts and experiences from that time on the road; stories that anyone could relate to.

Where We Begin is an album that deals with highs and lows, finding what you want by not running from what you are, and life decisions through hard lessons learned. The songs are lush, filled with what has become Absentstar's signature Brit/American mix of Derek Ingersoll's soaring vocal melodies and Marshall Hanbury Jr's bombastic guitar work. It's an overall sonic package that is referred to as Hi-Fi Indie Rock. The band just believes it's good music without the need of labling and descriptions. The music will define itself to each new set of ears in different ways. It's at once new and inspiring, but also familiar and comfortable, as well as emotive and thought provoking. This album is summed up in Ingersoll's poignant verse, "I'm putting the past behind, and my best foot forward." For Absentstar, Where We Begin truly is where they begin.

"Where We Begin" is scheduled to be released in the summer of 2009.

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Where We Begin - New Release - Summer 2009!

Doug Lefrak and Robert English
Feisty Management

Booking:
David Klein
CAA

Legal:
Gillian Bar
Carroll, Guido and Groffman