The band's major label debut, Absence, was released on Universal Records on April 28, 2009. The album reached No. 13 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart behind the single "Carousel".
In early 2008, the TV show One Tree Hill featured Paper Route songs in the episodes "Life Is Short" and "Cryin' Won't Help You Now". The band's song "Last Time" was chosen to be the theme song for the August 31, 2008 Nike+ Human Race. "Gutter" was featured on CSI: NY. "Second Chances" and "Calm My Soul" were featured on MTV's World of Jenks (Season 1).
In March, Paper Route were named one of American music website - Shred News - '10 Artists to Watch in 2010'.
The 2009 film (500) Days of Summer features the Paper Route song "The Music".
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Famous quotes containing the word absence:
“Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.”
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“For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not for the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.”
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