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The wordy third of Two Dollar Guitar in solo flight for the first time. Lower in key but not without its own unique intensities, Hotel Opera was borne of impulses and circumstances which converged during downtime between Two Dollar Guitar's 1996 opus Burned and Buried, and the mixing of the band's pair of forthcoming albums. Herein lie 11 rambling/ephemeral soul-ballads, scored for some recent additons to the Foljahn instrument arsenal; not untouched by the ghosts of anglo-folk past, yet still showing the familiar bold nods to classic Americana. But the album emerged above all from under the influence of a cinematic experience in Barcelona, which enlightened our happy soldier re: the maverick star-crossings of alien visitation/posession as an astonishingly apt metaphor for that good old falling-in-love thing. From the opening ache of the Hawaii-tuned title track, through the twelve string incantations of "Chambre Vert", the Hazlewoodian perfection of "La Lengua Asesina", and a singular reading of Townes Van Zandt's "Waiting Around to Die", Tim signifies supreme, describing those/our still/always familiar emotional contours with his own particular inimitable baritone yawl.
Hotel Opera,La Lengua Asesina,Smells Like Records,Indie Rock,Pop,Rock,Rock/Pop
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