<img src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/hotels.jpg" align="right" height="112" width="170" />Hidden Shoal Recordings is proud to announce the signing of Seattle-based impossibly catchy sci-fi pop band <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/hotels/">Hotels</a>.

Hotels makes hook-heavy sci-fi soundtrack synth rock that goes for the jugular, both sonically and melodically. Picture the bastard children of Devo and Joy Division, pushed down the street in a stroller by Claude Debussy, tucked in at night by the Cocteau Twins, read bedtime stories by Kraftwerk, and baby-sat by your sister’s cooler older friends Stereolab and The Pixies, while they tore out the guts of old synths in the garage. The result is the most relentlessly paced, hauntingly melodic, damn catchy pop music you’ve never heard, each song an end credit for the weary traveller or the romantic dancer; a tune you can listen to just before you die.

<em>“Hotels fuse elements of new wave, goth, and surf so seamlessly that genre tags will be the last thing on your mind when you hear their bittersweet, atmospheric pop songs”</em> – <strong>Time Out New York</strong>

<a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/hotels/">Hotels</a>’ second album, <em>Where Hearts Go Broke</em>, was recorded in Seattle at Chromasound and Bear Creek, and is due for release on Hidden Shoal on Valentine’s Day 2009, preceded by a single on January 16th.

For a sneak preview check out <a href="http://www.myspace.com/hotels" target="_blank">Hotels' Myspace page</a>, and for more info read the full press release <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Hotels_Signing.pdf">here</a>.