Hotels’ awesome album Where Hearts Go Broke has just received glowing reviews in US print magazine The Big Takeover and Aussie website Timeoff. Visit Hotels’ reviews section to read lovingly edited excerpts, along with a stack of other foaming press.

Where Hearts Go Broke is available in CD and mp3 format from the Hidden Shoal Store.

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Excerpt (translated from the Italian): “A remarkable quantity of electric, acoustic and electronic instruments, and voice used occasionally, with which HC-B create their imaginative soundtracks, unifying post-punk, post-rock and the avant-garde in eclectic compositions. More authoritative and intriguing than their album Sliding On Barents Sea (2003), Soundcheck For A Missing Movie hypnotizes with eight complex episodes, where physical flashes sometimes break cerebral and emotional harmonies’ calm.”

Il Mucchio Selvaggio

Excerpt (translated from the Italian): “two different faces in one soul: the first dissonant, moving music of legendary proportions in loud masses with a large ensemble; the second introverted, defined by math-rock grids. HC-B’s aesthetics are oriented to the reconstruction of livid and rough landscapes… Obscure and violent emotions, mitigated by the magical artifices of poetry. 8/10″

Rockerilla

Excerpt: “Sicilian quintet HC-B have bundled together a glorious collection of tracks here that summons the restraint and patience of bands like The For Carnation, the energy and effervescence of math-rock, and a gorgeous melodic sensibility that reminds us all why we liked post-rock in the first place… an album of small details – gutteral guitars are lifted up by wisps of white noise, delicate passages float by just that little bit smoother via backing theremins, and the occasional string section adds the requisite cinematic flourishes for which the album claims its title… enough inspired twists and solid jams to cement a place as one of the sharpest experimental rock releases of the year.”

Drum Media (Perth)