Home, Like Noplace Is There

by The Hotelier

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Liam One of the most heartbreaking and cathartic listens I've experienced. Favorite track: Among The Wildflowers.

whalebonescult i bought "Home, Like NoPlace Is There" because the band is currently switching to a different record label, resulting in their music being off spotify, and i don't know how to get through a day without this album Favorite track: Discomfort Revisited.

VerdeAgua The cry of a generation. Favorite track: Dendron.

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1.	An Introduction To The Album 04:32	buy track
2.	The Scope Of All Of This Rebuilding 02:26	buy track
3.	In Framing 02:59	buy track
4.	Your Deep Rest 03:47	buy track
5.	Among The Wildflowers 05:48	buy track
6.	Life In Drag 02:21	buy track
7.	Housebroken 04:50	buy track
8.	Discomfort Revisited 03:59	buy track
9.	Dendron 05:27	buy track

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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."

A careful listen to Holden's lyrics reveals that each song on Home, Like Noplace Is There makes a political statement, albeit by showing rather than telling. They may be most visible on "Housebroken" on which Holden addresses an abused dog; after inviting it to be free, he sings as the canine above a jangling guitar, saying, "Master's all that I got, keeps me having a purpose, / Gives me bed keeps me fed, and I'm just slightly nervous / Of what I might do if I were let loose / If I caught that mail car or ate garbage for food, / So as I bear all my teeth, I will ask of you please / to just leave." As this swaying song rises dramatically from this revelation, that some individuals prefer their restraints, it becomes clear that there's more to the record than its powerful melodies.

By making political statements through personal explorations, The Hotelier has not only make a uniquely political record, but also a subtler, more successful one.

- Dane Erbach

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released February 25, 2014

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