Review Summary: A great emotional punk-ish album.
Oh, The Hotelier....
That band with some of the most heart breakingly honest lyrics that sometimes cross the barier into cringey matereial.
I love this band.
Just.....
Love.
Home Like No Place Is There, Is an album that I enjoyed thoroughly, but some of the songs on here almost make it better than that.
Such a Weathered, An Ode To The Nine Ratz Club, Vacancy, and Lonely Hearts Club.
This band puts on a ***ing show with this album spilling their guts on you and whoever is listening.
It's so easy to fall head over heels in love with this band.
From the emotional lyrics and delivery of the singer, to the band coming together and constructing some of the saddest songs you'll here in this genre.
Now this album is a lot more Punk enthused than emo, but it has it's emo moments, and it's a nice blend of both.
Although all in all I feel this album isn't as personal as it's predecessor, as it seems more focused on the outside perspective of the overall narrative.
Which is fine, but when you've heard songs like, Life In Drag and Dendron, it's hard to believe the same band wrote these songs.
But they did.
Lyrically the whole album seems to be looking back to a better time from a dark place, and seeing hope at the end of that dark tunnel.
And believe you me this album gets ***ING dark.
"The strain in my back has left me here. I keep choking on my fears, on my loose ends. All the strength leaves the ghosts alone." - Vacancy
"Until the night when it got way too serious, and you showed me your damaged wrists, and you broke down and we embraced and nothing at that time meant more to me.
And if I had only known that it would be the last time we'd be on that level with one another I would have never let you go." - An Ode To The Nine Ratz Club
Enough about the lyrics, which as always are damn good. How's the music?
Well it's also really good, everything is very tight and these guys know how to write some songs.
With some really cool explosive moments and screams, this band always sounds like their singing aloud their most personal thoughts.
I think weathered is one of the best examples of the singer's talent, as well as the other musicians.
It's a beautiful song.
Their is just so much beauty in the simplest of things.
Let it be climbing a water tower with your friends, or just lying down watching the clouds drift away.
The Hotelier perfectly capture the feeling of a depressive teen looking back on better times.
And if that's what they we're going for, job well done.
