The Hotelier Goodness 3/15/24

The Hotelier Goodness 3/15/24It is not enough to say that The Hotelier have grown older, or wiser, or more of anything. We can trace a progression, if we like, from the explosive empowerment of It Never Goes Out to the ashen disillusionment of Home, Like Noplace Is There. We can follow an awakening of youth in suburbia attempting to learn what is right, and what is ours, and what is possible and impossible, and maybe we can't save each other like we thought we once could. We're

Good Lovin Outside 12

all wrapped up in a shiny package

Escape From LA

The bass-heavy prog leanings of 2004's A CROW LEFT OF THE MURDER are replaced by a much more meat-and-potatoes rock approach that has become quintessential Incubus

" a corrosive reflection of the worst of us all

Like a dose of chicken soup for a disconnected moshing youth

On "North American Scum

Surviving is the follow-up to 2016's Integrity Blues

Lange also allows the trio to indulge in a bit of Floydian fantasies -- the made-to-order dialogue of "Drill Sergeant" is straight out of The Wall -- but he spends much of Drone sharpening Muse's synthesis of every arena rock idea ever essayed

TracksCredits 1 Moonchild 2 Don't Save Us from the Flames 3 In the Cold I'm Standing 4 Farewell/Goodbye 5 Fields

as evidenced by many songs

Format Detail: 2LP Transparent Yellow Vinyl w/ Poster