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[herdonthestreet]

Vacation mode at the Adeline Hotel in Phoenix. Banana print swim trunks, slides, rolled up towel, margarita in hand.

[sawdustandgin]

Best Albums of 2020: #11–35

PART 1

ordered alphabetically

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Adeline Hotel Solid Love

Adeline Hotel · Solid Love

Adeline Hotel | SnG coverage | order Solid Love | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | Soundcloud | Bandcamp

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Winston C.W. Good Guess

Good Guess by Winston C.W.

Winston C.W. | SnG coverage | order Good Guess | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | Soundcloud | Bandcamp

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Dive Index Waving At Airplanes

NeutralMusic · Dive Index - Window To Window (featuring Natalie Walker)

Dive Index | order Waving At Airplanes | website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | Soundcloud | Bandcamp

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Eartheater Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin

Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin by Eartheater

Eartheater | order Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Soundcloud | Bandcamp

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flunkie pure optimist

pure optimist by flunkie

flunkie | order pure optimist | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | Soundcloud | Bandcamp

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H.Moon Trustblood

Trustblood by h.moon

H.Moon | order Trustblood | Facebook | Instagram | YouTube | Bandcamp

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Ichiko Aoba Windswept Adan

Windswept Adan by Ichiko Aoba

Ichiko Aoba | order Windswept Adan | website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | Bandcamp

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Kacey Johansing No Better Time

Kacey Johansing · All Of Me

Kacey Johansing | SnG coverage | order No Better Time | website | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube | Soundcloud | Bandcamp

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[taryninstereo]

Tonight in Brooklyn: The Essex Green, Pale Lights, and Adeline Hotel @ Knitting Factory

What a perfect indie pop evening for me with The Essex Green and supergroup Pale Lights (variously members and former members of Comet Gain, Crystal Stilts, Great Lakes, Knight School, and Cinema, Red and Blue)!

[laxxvora]

"Cosimo salì sugli alberi e non scese più. Il vento gli parlava e lui ascoltava"... [al link 📣] #laxxvora #releaseday #ad2025 #newmusic #newmusicfriday #passaparola #sanguefresco

Release Day - Ottobre 24

[dustedmagazine]

Christian Carey’s Questions for 2025

The Hard Quartet

How long are the current upticks in CD and LP sales likely to last? 

When things finally go all digital, can we find better gatekeepers than Spotify and their ilk?

When will the AI bubble burst? 

Will periodically untethering from devices become the new Hygge? One hopes so.

2024 was a difficult year in most ways, a happy exception being the bounty of excellent music released to the world. I found it impossible to make a comprehensive list. The one below is simply today’s reflection on the recordings that I kept coming back to in 2024, and likely will in 2025 and beyond. 

Adeline Hotel — Whodunnit

Laurie Anderson — Amelia (Nonesuch)

Felicia Atkinson — Space as an Instrument (Shelter Press)

The Black Keys — Ohio Players (Nonesuch)

Donald Berman — Ives Piano Sonatas (Avie)

Leo Chadburn — Primordial Pieces (self—released)

Alessandro Cortini — Nata Infiniti (Mute)

Cloud Cult — Alchemy Creek (Earthology)

Alice Coltrane — The Carnegie Hall Concert — Live (Verve)

The Cure — Songs of a Lost World (Polydor)

Danish String Quartet — Keel Road (ECM)

Taylor Deupree — Sti.ll (Greyfade)

Efterklang — Things We Have in Common (City Slang)

Nomi Epstein — Shades (Another Timbre)

Jake Xerxes Fussell — When I’m Called (Fat Possum)

Godspeed You! Black Emperor (Constellation) — No Title as of 13 February, 2025 28,340 Dead

The Hard Quartet — S/T (Merge)

Loma — How Will I Live Without a Body? (Sub Pop)

Phosphorescent — Revelator (Verve)

Oneida — Expensive Air (Joyful Noise)

Rosali — Bite Down (Merge)

Ches Smith — Merge Ash (Pyroclastic)

Alan Sparhawk — White Roses, My God (Sub Pop)

Waxahatchee — Tigers Blood (Anti)

[dustedmagazine]

Adeline Hotel — Whodunnit (Ruination)

Dan Knishkowy’s band Adeline Hotel appears as a sextet of musicians on his 2024 Ruination recording Whodunnit. The singer/songwriter/guitarist is joined by keyboardist Winston Cook-Wilson, drummer Sean Mullins, upright bassist Carmen Quill, and vocalists Katie Von Schleicher and Jackie West. Von Schleicher and Sandro Perri are on the production team. Despite the numbers, the music is more subdued and the arrangements sparer than last year’s Hot Fruit or 2020’s Solid Love. Knishkowy has remarked that emphasizing the lyrics was an important consideration in recording Whodunnit.

Adeline Hotel has been a prolific project, releasing music steadily since 2016. Knishkowy channels a number of indie luminaries, including David Grubbs, Phil Elverum and Jim O’Rouke. He also addresses the breakup of his marriage. This is noteworthy in that, without rancor, Knishkowy examines emotions, endings, and paths not taken.

“How did I Get So Lucky?” opens with an extended acoustic guitar introduction, punctuated by piano chords and a dash of birdsong. When Knishkowy’s voice enters, it is a brittle, upper register keening. The opening motive also serves as an interlude between verses. After a keening final verse, the song slowly dissipates on a held guitar chord.

The title track, which clocks in just above six minutes, has gentle singing combined with subdued acoustic guitar and piano. Partway through, sparks of electric guitar and group vocals accompany a gradual overall crescendo. A cadential halt is followed by a return to the verse amid synth whorls. The chorus resumes, adding electric guitar, piano, and backing vocals to synth glissandos. However, the final verse is nearly unaccompanied, and the coda brings back an acoustic guitar alongside a laconic vocal.

“Preying On” is a delicate miniature in which the band plays a subdued background to duet vocals. “Grief” emphasizes the singing in the mix, underlaid with arco bass and dulcet piano harmonies. Partway through, a sustained note on the double bass serves as a pedal for guitars, which are then distressed by synths. “Egg On My Face” brings the whole instrumental cohort together to buoy a wistful vocal. There is an extended outro emphasizing the acoustic guitar and textural synths that is quite fetching. “Joy” is a warm yet melancholic ballad with trading solos from piano and acoustic guitar. Krishkowy’s vocals are sinuously mesmerizing. “Isn’t That Enough” is another ballad conception, with propulsive acoustic guitar, gleaming keyboards, a simple patterning in bass and drums, and doubled vocals. The opening of “Joy” sounds more laconic than ebullient, but Krishkowy’s singing and the backing band gradually take on an affirming demeanor.

“Isn’t that Enough?” is about how much is emotionally revealed to a partner, and whether our innermost thoughts can safely be shared. While the love affair is over, memories of a time together are potent and persistent. “I Will Let Your Flowers Grow” affords the band the opportunity for a long solo section. Afterwards, Krishkowy returns to sing some of the most poignantly revealing music on the album. The refrain serves as an outro with backing vocals added to the mix. The final track, “Possible Lives” pits a rousing arrangement against vulnerable singing. Krishkowy sees painful memories and lost opportunities, “I was lucky, so lucky,” with a sense of resignation and resilient hope that there may be more to his life than this challenging time. Whodunnit isn’t like any previous Adeline Hotel, and it is the better for it.

Christian Carey

[album-a-day-project]

10/1/24

Adeline Hotel

Whodunnit

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Artist Dan Knishkowy. Reminds me a lot of a combination of Bon Iver and Nick Cave. Simple acoustic guitars with nice melodies and lyrics. A rainy day album that is hard to hate. This album is my introduction to this artist and I'm really glad to have discovered him. I'll be following and makes me excited to listen to some of his older music to compare it to this.

7/10

[thejoyofviolentmovement]

Live Concert Photography: Maple Glider with Adeline Hotel at The Sultan Room 12/5/23

Live Concert Photography: Maple Glider with Adeline Hotel at The Sultan Room 12/5/23 @mapleglider @partisanrecords @brykitch @adelinehotel @ruinationrecs @TheSultanRoom

Live Concert Photography: Maple Glider with Adeline Hotel at The Sultan Room 12/5/23 Last week, I caught rising Aussie singer/songwriter Maple Glider play a headlining set at The Sultan Room that primarily focused on her gorgeous latest album I Get Into Trouble. Local singer/songwriter Adeline Hotel played an equally gorgeous opening set. Check out photos below. Maple Glider Adeline Hotel

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