Feb 10, 2011 | Hotels Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “Fantastic lead single from the Seattle band’s new album. And the second appearance this month of that most under-appreciated of genres, lounge noir (albeit a pumped-up, garage-y version – I’ve also seen sci-fi pop offered as a label,...
Feb 7, 2011 | Hotels Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “Remember when your punk-rock lesbian classmate made you a mixed tape and you heard Joy Division, Bauhaus and New Order for the first time? Remember how madly in love you fell with all things goth; the music, the fashion, the nocturnal romance of it...
Aug 17, 2010 | Hotels Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “New single from Seattle band on the excellent Perth-based label, taken from last year’s wonderful Where Hearts Go Broke album. Shades of ’70’s-era Pink Floyd, but as fed through a Stereolab filter – ends up sounding like a noir-ish lounge...
May 3, 2010 | Hotels Reviews, Indie News, Markus Mehr Reviews, News Updates
Late last week German blog Shalgrenzen indulged in our catalog. Releasing a bunch of mini reviews from a few of our artists, including reviews on recent releases from the likes of Boxharp, Iretsu and Markus Mehr and also taking a step back to last year looking at...
May 3, 2010 | Hotels Reviews, Markus Mehr Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “The Australian indie label with a focus on ambient, instrumental post-rock and has a publication frequency, constant as a metronome…. Humbuzzer is the first single from the forthcoming album “Catch” (from) the band Iretsu. I had heard...
Aug 3, 2009 | Hotels Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “The singer emoted like a ’luded Ian Curtis, deep and tremulously dramatic, while the keyboardist worked four layers of keys and a laptop (the excellent drummer also had a laptop). To keep their Manchester tributes unexpected, Hotels cranked out a...
