Hotel Last Resort is the tenth studio album by American rock band Violent Femmes. The album was released on July 26, 2019, by Add It Up Productions and PIAS Recordings.[1][2] The cover art is a picture of the Eastlink hotel sculpture in Australia.

Hotel Last Resort
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 26, 2019
Recorded2019
GenreAlternative rock
Length38:03
LabelAdd It Up Productions, PIAS Recordings
ProducerTed Hutt
Violent Femmes chronology
2 Mics & the Truth
(2017)
Hotel Last Resort
(2019)

Critical reception

edit
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic68/100[3]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [4]
American Songwriter     [5]
Consequence of SoundC−[6]
Exclaim!6/10[7]
The Guardian     [8]
Rolling Stone     [9]
The Skinny     [10]

Hotel Last Resort received generally positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 68, which indicates "generally favorable reviews", based on 12 reviews.[3]

Track listing

edit
No.TitleLength
1."Another Chorus"2:38
2."I Get What I Want"2:30
3."I'm Nothing" (featuring Stefan Janoski)2:26
4."Adam Was a Man"2:59
5."Not OK"2:34
6."Hotel Last Resort" (featuring Tom Verlaine)5:12
7."Everlasting You"2:13
8."It's All or Nothing"2:25
9."I'm Not Gonna Cry"2:56
10."This Free Ride"2:14
11."Paris to Sleep"3:38
12."Sleepin' at the Meetin'"1:38
13."God Bless America"4:40
Total length:38:03

Personnel

edit

Charts

edit
Chart (2019) Peak
position
US Independent Albums (Billboard)[11] 29

References

edit
  1. ^ "Hotel Last Resort by Violent Femmes on Apple Music". Music.apple.com. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
  2. ^ Ryan Reed (2019-04-30). "Hear Violent Femmes' New Song With Tom Verlaine, 'Hotel Last Resort'". Rollingstone.com. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
  3. ^ a b "Hotel Last Resort by Violent Femmes Reviews and Tracks". Metacritic. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
  4. ^ Fred Thomas. "Hotel Last Resort - Violent Femmes". AllMusic. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
  5. ^ "Violent Femmes: Hotel Last Resort". Americansongwriter.com. 2019-07-25. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
  6. ^ Coney, Brian (2019-08-01). "Violent Femmes - Hotel Last Resort". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
  7. ^ Brzozowski, Sophie (2019-07-26). "Violent Femmes Hotel Last Resort". Exclaim.ca. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
  8. ^ Michael Hann (2019-07-26). "Violent Femmes: Hotel Last Resort review – vigorously middling". The Guardian. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
  9. ^ Kory Grow (2019-07-29). "Review: Violent Femmes' 'Hotel Last Resort'". Rollingstone.com. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
  10. ^ Bethany Davison (2019-07-24). "Violent Femmes album review: Hotel Last Resort". The Skinny. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
  11. ^ "Violent Femmes Chart History (Independent Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved October 28, 2019.