The Hotelier is an American emo band from Worcester, Massachusetts. They wr… Read Full Bio ↴The Hotelier is an American emo band from Worcester, Massachusetts. They write songs. Those songs are about things.

The Hotelier formed in June 2009 when lead singer Christian Holden met Chris Hoffman, Zack Shaw, and Sam Frederick while attending high school in Dudley, Massachusetts. In 2009, the band released their first EP, titled We Are All Alone, which received little success outside of Massachusetts. At the end of the year, the band released Two Song Demo. In 2011, the band released their first album, titled It Never Goes Out, receiving some attention.

Originally named The Hotel Year, the band changed its name because they did not think the name was particularly good, and there was a band called My Hotel Year which they did not want to be confused with.

The band released their second album in 2014 titled Home, Like Noplace Is There, which brought the band to attention in the emo revival scene. After releasing the album, vocalist Christian Holden stated in a blog post on the bands Tumblr that "Our new album deals with some real dark stuff. So to all my brooding and slightly damaged friends, have your a happy album or Rugrats in Paris nearby. It’s partly about my experience with friends and loved ones in the past three years which were very complicated, toxic, and abusive. But laid within is a lot about the deconstruction of self for personal growth and transformation. I hope it helps you live and stuff. Apparently we are emo now." Home, Like Noplace Is There ranked at number 1 on the AbsolutePunk staff's top 30 albums of 2014, and number 6 on the users' top 50 albums of 2000-2015. According to Marc Snitzer, writer for the Philadelphia City Paper, The Hotelier was named one of two bands "leading the emo revival". The release of the band's sophomore album was ranked number seven on Alternative Press's list of the "12 Biggest Moments of The #EmoRevival in 2014". Leor Galil, writer for the Chicago Reader named it his favorite record of 2014. The band was also featured (for their second album) in a Boston Globe article highlighting the best music from Boston in 2014. The album was included at number 29 on Rock Sound's "Top 50 Albums of the Year" list.

The band was featured on Property of Zack's "Artists To Watch in 2015". The band performed at the 2015 Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona, Spain. In the spring of 2015, the band supported La Dispute and Title Fight on their co-headlining tour.

On 15 February 2016 Christian Holden wrote a blog post on the band's Tumblr account in which they mentioned an impending album announcement for an album entitled Goodness. The album was formally announced the next day. At the same time the band released a trailer for the album set to the song Goodness Pt I, a song sold as a limited edition numbered vinyl during the band's 2015 tour.

The band premiered their second single titled "Soft Animal" on April 22, 2016. The album itself was released a little over a month later, on May 27, through Tiny Engines.

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The Hotelier Lyrics

We have lyrics for these tracks by The Hotelier:

-- (N 43° 59' 38.927 We sit and we talk, not of much but of little.…
Among the Wildflowers You we born on a leap year. Fill in the gaps. Spinning…
An Introduction to the Album Open the curtains. Singing birds tell me "tear the building…
An Ode to the Nite Ratz Club The gas inside the combustion engine took away all of the…
Dendron You cut your ties, felt better off. Salutations to your son.…
Discomfort Revisited You carry an illness. Practically know it by name. It seld…
End of Reel First breath following wakes of the palms pressed, brushed o…
Fear Of Good Skin, caked with sap of pine, can't catch against my roaring…
Goodness Pt. 2 When the sun rested on olive shoulders And the wind kissed…

Goodness, Pt. 2 There is a kind and immediate hushing. There is a setting…
Housebroken We called off your guard as we entered the yard to…
In Framing You fell for the first option presented of new rebirth.…
Life in Drag I tried to keep a steady hand. Tumble blocks Start again. I …
Lonely Hearts Club It's safe to say we've always been actors. From time to…
Opening Mail For My Grandmother Your grip on my forearm, insert the wrong name, Holds me…
Our Lives Would Make a Sad Boring And to the people making life from lust, abusing trust, and…
Our Lives Would Make A Sad, Boring Movie To the people making life from lust, abusing trust and the…
Piano Player Inside your room there's 40 few remaining figures of new moo…
Settle the Scar Dizzy drunk and throwing up, I finally stopped my spinning. …
Soft Animal We were cloaked in the awning of night or early…
Sun You and I'd escape the night and call it summering. I'd…
The Scope of All of This You cut our ropes, left the umbilical, and now I carry aroun…
The Scope of All of This Rebuilding You cut our ropes, left the umbilical, and now I carry aro…
Title-Track This head holds fragments of some shattered glass. They act …
Two Deliverances The icons cluttering your bureau are eyeing me as I…
Vacancy You're so old now. Your bearings are shot. You're a caved in…
Weathered You were awakened. I was never asleep. I was just drilling s…
You In This Light Feeling erodes moving like wash against the limestone leavin…

Your Deep Rest So while you're fixing up your bed So while you're organizin…

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