Rose Hotel (from the album A Pawn Surrender

Rose Hotel (from the album A Pawn Surrender

Rose Hotel (from the album A Pawn Surrender on New West Records) (by Bryant Liggett)
Jordan Reynolds has created a great mix of sounds. Recording under the band name Rose Hotel, Reynolds has crafted a catchy, audio concoction, in which the latest in A Pawn Surrender is part Indie Pop and Indie Rock with psychedelic meanderings that seem to curiously wander all over the place, including into the wonderful world of Avant-lounge and cocktail Pop. It’s glorious.
There’s a new wave vibe to the opener in “Fall in Love Again and Again” where Rose Hotel provide vocals that echo like they are in a silo, a great technical addition. “Fruit Tree” follows with an exploratory vibe into lounge territory, and “Drown” is driven by trippy guitar. There’s a 1990’s vibe to “Not Like That”, “King and a Pawn” has a sweet percussive pulse. and “Pushing Me” continues with more of the dreamy and more of the mellow. Electro-Folk is explored in “On Your Side” and Rose Hotel digs into modern Indie Rock in the closer “Illusion Anyway”. It is a cut that explores Pop via the melody and tripped out twang via the pedal steel guitar that rears an ambient head throughout the cut.
A Pawn Surrender is an album that explores the past and present; a touch of old-school New Wave here, Indie Roots, and an air of Indie-Psychedeliia there; all are part of a sound that lets us know Rose Hotel has done its homework as the sounds course through the entire musical package.  (by Bryant Liggett)
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