Home. Like Noplace Is There (Evergreen Vinyl) [VINYL]

The most political music is often the most explicit, battering its audience with its beliefs. But that isn't always the case; sometimes it embeds its ideas in subtler, more successful ways. Take The Hotelier (previously The Hotel Year), whose second full-length "Home, Like Noplace Is There" is comprised of what can only be described as anthemic, cathartic rock songs, sent occasionally to delicate and destructive extremes. Singer Christian Holden pushes his clean voice until it crumbles, on "The Scope of All of This Rebuilding" against a strutting pace, and on the furious "Life in Drag", but most powerfully during the chorus of "Your Deep Rest" where his words are heart-wrenching and haunting. As drummer Sam Frederick stamps out an enormous beat and chords - strummed by Cody Millet, Scott Ayotte, and Chris Hoffman - clamor around him, Holden sings, "I called in sick from your funeral / tradition of closure made it feel impossible.../ I should have never kept my word to you / Not a cry not a sound / Might've learned how to swim but never taught how to drown /You said remember me for me, I need to set my spirit free." By making political statements through personal explorations, The Hotelier has not only make a uniquely political record, but also a subtler, more successful one. Product Details Artist: HOTELIER Title: Home. Like Noplace Is There (Evergreen Vinyl) Catalogue Number: LPDOFR902C2 Barcode: 634457220683 Label: DREAMS OF FIELD Tracklisting A1. An Introduction To The Album A2. The Scope Of All Of This Rebuilding A3. In Framing A4. Your Deep Rest A5. Among The Wildflowers B1. Life In Drag B2. Housebroken B3. Discomfort Revisited B4. Dendron