Mar 7, 2011 | Hotels Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “On The Casino Floor is the newest album from the Seattle-based band Hotels, this release is a seven-song concept album that tells the story of a secret agent and his attempts to save the world from an evil galactic prince. Overall the album has a more...
Mar 7, 2011 | Liam Singer Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “The Brief Encounter has piano, hammered dulcimer, and fiddle. I believe there are also some electronically processed sounds, but if so, that is done with great subtlety. The song tells the story of a man who has an encounter with a ghost, and the song...
Mar 7, 2011 | Liam Singer Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “… Oh what can we say about this endearing darling, short, sweet, trimmed with a glowing fuzzy felt homeliness and ends unexpectedly mid flow. Well that’s the shortened version for the latest release on the much admired and esteemed hidden shoal...
Mar 7, 2011 | Hotels Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “Most times a band of any kind is made up of people who all basically want to play a certain kind of music. So many genres, they normally have similar influences and similar sounds which all form together to make a punk band, or an electro-pop band, or...
Mar 7, 2011 | Hotels Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “Two years after their well deserved critically acclaimed sophomore album Where Hearts Go Broke the Seattle-based sci-fi pop band Hotels releases their third album; On The Casino Floor. A seven track concept album that moves their cinematic sound close...
Feb 23, 2011 | Liam Singer Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “Liam Singer has turned out another freakishly beautiful single – a lush, dreamy dance of harpsichord and violin. The classical influences and contemporary structure marry perfectly, creating a sound that is formal but warm, romantic but slightly...
