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I wrote about
@thehotelyear
and what Home Like Noplace Is There has meant to me, and to emo at large, over the past ten years
'Home, Like Noplace Is There,' the second album from the Hotelier (
@thehotelyear
), turns 10 years old weekend.
Take a look back at the emo revival and an LP that grounded individual struggles not in entitlement or heartbreak, but in a political context:
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You should get paid for your commute
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Hard to think of another album cover as embarrassing as this one
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every band a decade ago was doing that thing where they had one whiny singer and then a guy who would yell like his throat was stuffy. balance and comp, pentimento, you blew it, basement, have mercy, make do and mend…we need to bring that back
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Obviously dad rock is one of the most heralded of genres, but is there mom rock? And if so, who are the canonical artists?
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It’s funny in the age of Boygenius to think that Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker each collaborated with Joyce Manor and Touché Amoré at one point. 2016 was wild
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I just heard a Noah Kahan song for the first time…wow…this isn’t good
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‘You don’t miss college, you miss living in a walkable city’ no actually I miss having minimal responsibilities and spending all my time hanging out with my friendd, thanks though
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good pop punk is almost always a little bit emo. bad emo is almost always a little bit pop punk
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Who is an actor that hasn’t worked with Wes Anderson yet but you think would kill it in one of his movies?
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They Are Gutting A Body Of Water And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die
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if i like a band, then they're good; if i don't like a band, then they're bad
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It’s so cool that emo bands stopped ripping off American Football and immediately started ripping off Texas Is the Reason. Huge improvement
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Why is it that we never talk about how Wilco perfected power pop in 1996?
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My favorite thing is to hear a new band’s debut album and for it to sound simultaneously like a record I’ve been listening to my entire life and also like nothing I’ve ever heard
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Please stop starting album reviews by defining the title. I ask my 10th graders not to begin essays that way
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I can’t believe I have to sit through the incel baroque emo album before I get to see the depressed socialist emo album
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These are the albums I was most moved by this year, which makes them objectively the best albums released this year
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What’s on the emo revival Mt. Rushmore? I’d say, tastes aside, Some Kind of Cadwallader, Whenever If Ever, Home Like Noplace Is There, and You’re Gonna Miss It All
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Gonna make everyone mad and say I Don’t Wanna Be Funny Anymore is the best Lucy Dacus song by an insanely wide margin
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my "i'm 13 and nobody understands me and everything sucks" album
my "i'm 13 and nobody understands me and everything sucks" album
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gonna be the first person to tweet ‘spider man home like no place is there’
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If I can understand a single word you’re singing, you’re dream pop, not shoegaze
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We need a 2020s equivalent of those emo bands who put out the best song you’ve ever heard on some split or Deep Elm comp and then broke up without a trace
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@goodfriendraf
and then, ten years from now when everyone can see with clear eyes, theyll pretend they stood against it all along
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It’s interesting to me how many of the ‘serious,’ ‘mature,’ ‘adult’ pop punk bands from a decade ago still have cultural cache—The Wonder Years, Fireworks—and no one seems to ever talk about Transit
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Weird: Jimmy Eat World has 3x the monthlies of Taking Back Sunday, 5x the monthlies of New Found Glory, and 10x the monthlies of Angels & Airwaves
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not sure if the fifth wave emo type fans of this band understand how big they are about to be
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this isn’t going to change in the next week. here are my favorite albums of 2023 so far
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Absolutely losing my shit finding out in 2019 that “your deep rest” = “you’re depressed”
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Helping some friends plan a tour for this coming spring. Anyone know of good venues in this general area?
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It’s 2024. Why does your song not have both saxophone and pedal steel?
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I fear that we are dangerously close to a contrarian reevaluation of The Hotelier’s music and legacy
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The way that the average indie rock reviewer feels about Big Thief is the way that I feel about Wild Pink
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Drinking a lavender latte and listening to Joyce Manor…I guess heaven really is a place on Earth
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We’re approaching the mid year point. Give me one album that I should listen to from this year. Bonus points if it’s something I wouldn’t ordinarily gravitate toward
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Not a fan of this trend I’ve noticed where bands just stick previously released EPs at the end of albums to pad them out
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You either die a hardcore kid or live long enough to see yourself become a shoegaze fan
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hopelessly disappointed to find that no one wrote retrospectives on this first turnover record. probably one of the most insane career trajectories of any band ever after that one
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I feel like it used to be a boring normie opinion that Your Best American Girl was the best Mitski song. Have we swung so far around now that I can say that and not get called basic?
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It’s funny that in 2011 you could put out a pop punk rock opera based on an Allen Ginsberg poem and everyone would fall over themselves to declare it a mature album
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crazy how hard this whole album goes 25 years later
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Between my Florist / Big Thief tweet and my Tigers Jaw tweet, I have made enemies of both indie Twitter and emo Twitter this week. I will absolutely do no reflection from this
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Nobody wants to take my pitch about how the Gaslight Anthem’s romanticization of old-time rock’n’roll is fundamentally fascist in spirit and worldview 😕
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I thought for a long time that my life was a Hotelier song but now I know that my life is a Microwave song
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Man sometimes water just hits right! RT if you love drinking water
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People may get mad at me for this but I genuinely find it difficult to imagine any other possible democratic President handling things as badly as Biden has. He seems pretty unsuited unfit for the moment
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I liked this episode—as an east coaster I’m sick of hearing about San Francisco. But on a broader level
@IfBooksPod
is a frustrating listen because it reveals how much of our political discourse is based on willful mischaracterization or outright lies
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We can all agree that Pool Kids was been this year’s breakthrough emo record, right?
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Am I the only person alive whose favorite Big Thief album is Two Hands
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la dispute:
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This should be universally recognized as the best song on Transatlanticism, and at least one of Death Cab’s three or so best songs
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I might be presenting my thesis about Home, Like Noplace Is There at a conference this spring lol
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She let me hit because I’m not sad anymore, I’m just tired of this place
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Yes I’m writing a term paper about the hotelier. Yes I’m describing in painstaking detail the history of emo music. Yes I’m citing myself at least four times
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in a just world this would have the ubiquity of the prince daddy hoodie
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the only correct list
Make a 20-track comp of your all-time fav tracks, each artist can only feature once. Not the 'best' songs, the ones that bring instant joy the second you hear the first note, the ones that give other people the best insight into what stirs your soul. Share when ready.
#20tracks
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I’m ready to say it. Lvl Up’s Return to Love is the best guitar album of the 2010s
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It’s so cool how Spotify’s just constantly getting worse in every respect
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More bands should title their albums (band name)’s (album title). Very cool. See: Cursive’s Domestica, Destroyer’s Rubies
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I feel like Spice gets no hype but they’re basically Militarie Gun before Militarie Gun
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The best emo song cannot hold a candle to the worst Goo Goo Dolls single
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countrygaze
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