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Jul 2, 2012With Gold Motel the bandmembers are wiser, but never weary, simultaneously expanding their sound around their new world-view and fitting it within the candy-pop shell they've crafted so well.
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Alternative PressJul 2, 2012The arrangements are busier, but Morgan's the key to holding it together. [Aug 2012, p.90]
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Jul 2, 2012At this crossroads between excitement, adventure and melancholy, Gold Motel resides.
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Jul 6, 2012Gold Motel is in the truest sense a feel-good record, one perfectly suited for the mellow, hazy days it reaches so far to recreate.
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Aug 14, 2012Songs like "Santa Cruz" make this album fallible--they aren't as beautiful as the place and memories evoked from the titles.
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Jul 3, 2012Overall, Gold Motel stands out as a non-guilty pop pleasure that will leave hip listeners singing, dancing and apologizing, "Sorry, I'm not sorry."
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UncutJul 2, 2012This female-fronted quintet continues to connect the tuneful aggression of Blondie with the SoCal sassiness of Rilo Kiley. [Aug 2012, p.71]