The Hotelier - Goodness (May 27, 2016) Album • Page 89

Just finished my third listen, there are so many light bulb moments when reading the lyrics. This is an album I'll be listening to five years from now and still find new things to enjoy. Everything comes together so well.

 

I love how this record is so intertwined and self-referential... Like the guitar sections from the first interlude in You In This Light, the constant lyrical references to each song etc. Can't wait to sit down with it with the lyrics properly later

 

that Two Deliverances/Settle The Scar/Opening Mail section is still such a highlight every time, like damn

 

Dear The Hotelier,

Thank you for making this.

 

god i should just go to bed now to get up in time tomorrow morning to drive to the park around sunrise to listen to this outside in my favorite spot
this is gonna be on repeat for A G E S

(edit: come on now, we all know i'm not going to bed on time ever)

 

I cannot wait to just sit with this album and the lyrics this weekend. It's such an experience from front to back! Extremely happy Tiny Engines decided to send out the digital early with preorder

 

I woke up with Piano Player stuck in my head which is weird cause I wasn't huge on it pre release.

 

Starting my listen now, I'm not as enamoured with Home as a lot of you, but I do enjoy it a decent amount.

 

I think this could be as good as Home in it's own way. Whoever complained about the mixing on the album is a fool

 

You In This Light is so fucking good, made even more so by that awesome drum ending.

 

The poem that opens the album is fucking awful, Pete Wentz-esque.

 

I like the poem, I feel like it makes sense as a sort of interlude between goodness Pt. 1 and 2

 

But is it as bad as Kyle from Real Friends spoken word pieces?

 

I don't know who they are haha, but Pete Wentz is the watermark for awful self-indulgent poetry.

 

This is incredible. It's so dense though I can barely understand it first listen but first impressions are just like wow

 

Just look up Kyle Fasel spoken word for some really really reeeeeeally cringy spoken word. Cringy and corny to its max.

 

how so?

 

Anyways, this is a really good album. Never heard Settle the Scar before and that was easily one of the highlights for me, especially that bridge. The second co-ordinates song really caught me off guard and is also another highlight.

 

I think it's self-indulgent, uninteresting, and just straight-up not a good piece of poetry, with nowhere near the depth or beauty that the author believes it has, and poorly delivered. It reminds me exactly of those godawful spoken word bits on the Fall Out Boy albums.

 

I may be biased but pretty sure End of Reel is the best song of all time

 

I think the poem itself is alright, but the way Christian delivers it is quite poorly. Doesn't sound authentic to me.

 

fair enough. i'm not necessarily enamored with the delivery either but as a poem, i think it embodies the themes of the record really well and plays with meter / imagery / internal rhyme in a very interesting way.

 

OMG I can't wait to listen all day at work! I'll report back later! I know you're all dying to know what I think! I hope you all love it!

 

This album is so beautiful and such a progression from Home it truly feels like the best possible thing they could have done coming off such a genre defining album. In love with this right now

 

I've been awake for an hour and have already gotten half the record stuck in my head.