Feb 26, 2009 | Hotels Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “If I had to describe Hotels, I’d have to recur to words like ‘spaced-out,’ ‘poppy,’ and ‘synthesizer,’ and I’d be using these words, for the most part, positively. Though you can hear that the 80s had a strong...
Feb 26, 2009 | Hotels Reviews, Reviews
“one of my albums of the year already…maybe even the decade…” The Underground Of Happiness
Feb 26, 2009 | Hotels Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “this is pop made in outer space… Album opener and first single ‘Hydra’ sounds like an updated pop version of the theme to cult science-fiction TV show Lost In Space, while the lush ‘Near The Desert, Near The City’ has us...
Feb 19, 2009 | Hotels Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt – “I first heard Seattle quartet Hotels when I happened to see them playing a show last August. I immediately fell in love with their music, clearly inspired by some of the great bands of the New Wave and post-punk genres but sounding as fresh and...
Feb 12, 2009 | Hotels Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “a delightful piece of pop music… catchy, sophisticated and romantic, just as a song telling about doomed love should be.” Luna Kafe
Feb 5, 2009 | Hotels Reviews, Reviews
Excerpt: “Featuring snappy percussion, sci-fi synths (think Grandaddy meets Stereolab) and a chorus that could fill indie charts and dancefloors the world over, it’s strange for a song that tells the tale of a doomed romance to sound so quirky and irresistible....
