  We demonstrate that the absence of stable quasiparticle excitations on parts
of the Fermi surface, similar to the "nodal-antinodal dichotomy" in underdoped
cuprate superconductors, can be reproduced in models of strongly correlated
electrons defined via a holographic dual. We show analytically that the
anisotropy of the quantum critical continuum, which is a feature of these
models, may lead to washing out the quasiparticle peak in one direction while
leaving it intact in the perpendicular one. The effect relies on the
qualitatively different scaling of the self-energy in different directions.
Using the explicit example of the anisotropic Q-lattice model, we demonstrate
how this effect emerges due to specific features of the near horizon geometry
of the black hole in the dual description.
