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Absent Friends

Fans of Neil Hannon's lush, literate brand of orchestral chamber pop who despaired over the comparative asceticism of his previous release, 2001's Regeneration (and the reported disbandment of the Divine Comedy) can now relax. With the first cascade of horns on Absent Friends -- reminiscent of a...

2004 RS: Not Rated

Regeneration

2001

Casanova

1996

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Biography

Neil Hannon, the Northern Irish singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist who bills himself on record as the Divine Comedy, is the kind of musical personality they just don't breed in America. Equal parts Scott Walker, Burt Bacharach, Michael Nyman, and No?l Coward, Hannon pokes fun at all aspects of modern life and culture in his lushly, sometimes kitschily arranged pop ditties. His lyrics ra...

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