The Hotelier - Goodness (May 27, 2016) Album • Page 236

Soft Animal and Sun have been very important songs to me this year. They never cease to give me chills and sitting down at the drums and playing through those songs is such a cathartic experience for me after a year where I've been battling a lot of depression. Nothing has been more satisfying to me than just pounding away at my snare drum with everything I've got as I belt out "Make me feel alive, make me believe that I don't have to die/there's a god sometimes."

 

I never came around to enjoying the record musically but I'm really happy the positive effect it had on the people in this thread. Music is wonderful for support.

 

This is a great thread rn

 

Long time lurker, thought I'd make an account to share the love for this album. I worked in a tiny village bar over the Summer and the album, 'End of Reel' in particular, helped me deal with personal issues that were amplified because of the job. It was an unusually warm Summer this year, so I was able to head down to a bench by the river before work most days and just sit and take in the record in the heat.

"In the night will you rest your head into my hands?
Will you disrupt this pattern from starting again?
If I ask you for nothing will nothing there stand?
I don't know what I want what I wants where I've been."

Phenomenal.

 

For me this album made me dig up some things I was repressing and really helped me deal with those issues. I truly believe my life is better bc this album exists, whether that is brought on by myself or the music itself, few worlds of art have had as strong of an effect on me as this record.

Love reading everyone's experiences with this record, please continue to share!

 

Driving with this album on through the Canadian Rockies on an absolutely picture perfect day is one of my favorite moments of the year. Really need to remember how awesome that experience and that album made me feel when I get down.

 

Which drive?

 

this album makes me believe that there's a God sometimes

 

Calgary to Banff National Park. Went on a hike that was Johnston Canyon I believe?

 

Welcome to Alberta!

 

I had a nice 4 days in your province lol

 

I already wrote a pretty long thing about this album a while back, but wanted to join in the current discussion.

Goodness came out basically right as I was beginning to actually present as a woman part-time and I listened to it a lot on my drives to and from work this past spring/summer. I played it heavily up until my last days of working at my previous job, where I was closeted, and quit because I'd finally decided that I couldn't continue to pretend to be a guy for any more of my life. I genuinely think something about this album helped give the me strength to make that move and begin to actually live my life.

It's interesting for me to look back on it. Especially taking into consideration that Home came out around the time I was beginning to question my gender identity and provided extreme catharsis during that time. It's pretty remarkable how both albums managed to help me during key moments in my transition, given how different each of those stages in my life were from each other and how much I'd changed as a person between the two releases.

I really hope this band continues to put out music after this album but, even if they don't, they've already released two of the most important albums in my life. I don't think I'd feel disappointed if they went out with this one.

 

Oh man. The drive after that between Banff and Jasper is the most beautiful thing.

 

I've done the Banff-Jasper trip multiple times, not since I was a kid though. We've got family out in Cranbrook that I haven't seen in years. I couldn't imagine what'd be like go soundtrack that terrain the way I could now.

 

This album gave me the confidence to fall in love with my best friend after i had just gotten my heart broken a few months beforehand by someone i also considered my best friend for over 5 years. I dont listen to it often but when i do, its a spiritual experience. "Sun" and "you in this light" both take me inside myself but somehow to a place faraway. Love this record with all my heart

 

Ha yeah I remember having this conversation back in the Canada thread at the time. Only had one day free from my conference so unfortunately time didn't allow with the rental car

 

Piano Player streamed the day I was taken from a local hospital to a mental institute and rehab center 7 hours away, disconnected from the outside world for almost 2 weeks. It was the last song I heard before my phone was taken away, and that situation is actually documented in this thread with me posting right before I was taken away.

Came back, clean with new medication and a new outlook, and INGO and Home were in constant rotation. Home was the first album I listened to the second I got my phone back. Then this album came out, and it felt like a cathartic end to a tumultuous arc in my life. The Taoist peace thats interconnected between the chords and snare hits and emotional vocals within Goodness felt like perfect timing, something I desperately needed.

Now, im much happier and healthier and I think Goodness and this bands entire discography played a part in that. I cant thank The Hotelier enough for these albums and the emotions I have tethered to them.

In the night, we will celebrate cyclical spin
As we ritually send off the fire at both ends
Yet I'm blanketed, wet with the thought in my head
I don't know what I want, what I want's where I've been

 

This thread right now, what's been taking place here over the last 12 hours or so, that's why I spend so much of my time on Chorus. These moments. Thank you all for sharing your experiences and bringing some serious joy to my life this close to Christmas.

 

I think Opening Mail is my song of the year

 

I still don't like Settle the Scar, but the entire album around it is perfect.

 

including the OG version?
that'd maybe be my favorite on here if i hadn't been listening to it for years haha

 

Settle the scar is one of my favorites

 

I've come around to preferring the new version

 

There are things I like about both versions

 

i prefer the new one