<img src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/medium/Hydra_MED.jpg" align="left" height="150" width="150" />Hidden Shoal Recordings today announced the release of ‘<a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=35&amp;products_id=97">Hydra</a>’ by Seattle-based sci-fi pop band <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/hotels/">Hotels</a>, the first single taken from their forthcoming sophomore album <em>Where Hearts Go Broke</em>.

‘Hydra’ is the winning opening salvo on an album crammed with impossibly catchy pop music, and the perfect introduction to Hotels’ addictive sound. Crisp, propulsive drumming and beautifully melodic bass playing are buoyed up by sizzling synths and chiming guitars, with Blake Madden’s vocal lines the icing on this delicious, hook-heavy cake.

With inimitable charm, the song tells of a doomed romance on a Greek isle, pulled off with the kind of verve and panache that only a band like Hotels could muster. Sophisticated yet <img src="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/store_images/hotels.jpg" align="right" height="112" width="170" />accessible, ‘Hydra’ whets the appetite for <em>Where Hearts Go Broke’s</em> endlessly replayable pop genius.

<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/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=35&amp;products_id=97">Hydra</a>’ is available for <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;cPath=35&amp;products_id=97">free download</a> from the <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/">HSR Store</a> until the release of <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/artists/hotels/">Hotels</a>’ new album, <em>Where Hearts Go Broke</em>, on Valentine’s Day 2009. Read a full press release <a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Hotels_Hydra_Single.pdf">here</a>.

<a href="http://www.hiddenshoal.com/wp-content/uploads/Media/HSR_Radio/Hotels/Where_Hearts_Go_Broke/Hydra.mp3">Hotels - Hydra</a>  <em>Hotels - Hydra</em>