Emerging out of the Pacific Northwest in 2021 and later relocating to Joshua Tree, California, This Lonesome Paradise is as much a living, breathing product of its hallucinatory high-desert environment as its reverb-rattled noir-Americana is a direct reflection of it. With the new Death Motels, the quartet has taken the next step into the boundless cinematic landscape that’s been teased in its previous work.
…Musically, Death Motels is relentless. Ferocious guitars slash through the silence like blades, low-end bass churns like a storm beneath the earth, and Ray Béchard’s voice hovers somewhere between incantation and confession. Jordin Bordeaux’s spectral voice and Mellotron textures conjure an atmosphere that feels both…

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