| Absent Fathers | ||||
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| Released | January 13, 2015 | |||
| Recorded | 2014 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Label | Vagrant, Loose | |||
| Producer | Justin Townes Earle, Adam Bednarik | |||
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| Aggregate scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 73/100 [1] |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [2] |
| Consequence of Sound | B− [3] |
| Exclaim! | 4/10 [4] |
Absent Fathers is the sixth studio album by American musician Justin Townes Earle. It was released in January 2015 under Vagrant Records and Loose.
Mike Sauve of Exclaim! wrote that "the problem is that Earle's melancholy has taken primacy over his songwriting, which is uncharacteristically generic here, making this subdued and plodding release a career low." [4] Grant Golden of Paste wrote, "For all of the somber overtones to Absent Fathers, there's still plenty of hopefulness within this record ... [o]ne can only hope that this landing means that he's as comfortable with self-exploration and transparency in the future as he's been on Single Mothers and Absent Fathers, because if so then the best of Earle may still be yet to come."
All tracks are written by Justin Townes Earle.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Farther from Me" | 3:45 |
| 2. | "Why" | 2:26 |
| 3. | "Least I Got the Blues" | 2:31 |
| 4. | "Call Ya Momma" | 3:37 |
| 5. | "Day and Night" | 4:24 |
| 6. | "Round the Bend" | 2:32 |
| 7. | "When the One You Love Loses Faith" | 4:11 |
| 8. | "Slow Monday" | 2:19 |
| 9. | "Someone Will Pay" | 2:13 |
| 10. | "Looking for a Place to Land" | 3:29 |
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