Dan Michaelson (born 13 December 1976 in Northampton) is a British musician who originally found success as singer with Absentee, before recording as Dan Michaelson and The Coastguards and as a solo artist.
The band included Henry Spenner (drums - of Fields), Laurie Earle (piano/guitar), Sanjay Mitra (bass guitar), and Horse (pedal steel/guitar).
[2] In November 2011, he released the solo album Sudden Fiction, inspired by time spent in Marfa, Texas, drawing comparisons with Bill Callahan.
NME describe Distance as 'forlorn Americana to rival The National', awarding the album 8/10.
[6] Memory was described by Michaelson as the final instalment in an album trilogy that commenced with 2013's Blindspot and continued with Distance in 2014.