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Home Tag Archives: hospitality

Tag Archives: hospitality

Hospitality: Trouble

By Nathan Kamal
January 28, 2014
in :  Music, Music Reviews, Recommended, Recommended Music

[xrr rating=4.0/5]Right about this time two years ago, I sat down to listen to the self-titled debut of a Brooklyn band named Hospitality. I was immediately struck by the quality of craftsmanship in its songs and equally struck by the thought “how am I going to write about this?” Hospitality’s music didn’t fall neatly into genres; it didn’t follow rules …

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Top 20 Albums of 2012

By Spectrum Culture Staff
December 20, 2012
in :  Lists, Year End Lists

20. Cat Power Sun [Matador] Cat Power’s ninth studio album is filled with unexpected studio flourishes—overdubs, synthesizers, electronic beats—and yet retains all the lyric edge and raw, minor-key emotion that distinguish the best of her work. Sun has moments as introspective as anything in Chan Marshall’s catalog, notably the hangover ruminations of “3,6,9” or the understated rage of “Always on …

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Concert Review: Hospitality

By Jacob Adams
October 10, 2012
in :  Concert Reviews, Music, Music Features

(Photo: John McNicholas) The self-titled debut LP of Brooklyn indie-pop group Hospitality was released earlier this year. It’s a consistently fun and intermittently profound record, one that could easily be forgotten when it comes time for end-of-year lists because of its January release date. This potential oversight is a shame because the album rather impressively explores the problems of post-college …

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Interview: Hospitality

By Nathan Kamal
February 28, 2012
in :  Music, Music Features, Music Interviews

Four years after their self-titled EP was released, Brooklyn band Hospitality has put out a full length album and it sounds fantastic. The trio of singer/guitarist Amber Papini, multi-instrumentalist Nathan Michel and bassist Brian Betancourt create songs that defy genre, working through shades of acoustic rock, crunchy pop and even some jazz thrown in, often sounding as delighted as they …

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Hospitality: Hospitality

By Nathan Kamal
January 30, 2012
in :  Music, Music Reviews, Recommended, Recommended Music

[xrr rating=4.5/5]It’s a bit early in 2012 to be calling anything “best” of well, pretty much anything, but since I’m a music critic, that’s kind of my job. And if I had to call out the best debut album of the year so far, it’d be New York-based band Hospitality’s eponymous album. After an EP last year and a trickle …

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