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- Record Label: Ghostly International
- Release Date: Oct 6, 2023
- Summary: The latest release from harpist Mary Lattimore features contributions by Meg Baird, Slowdive's Rachel Goswell, Samara Lubelski, Walt McClements, Roy Montgomery, and The Cure's Lol Tolhurst.
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- Record Label: Ghostly International
- Genre(s): Electronic, Avant-Garde, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Experimental Rock, Soundtracks, Stage & Screen, Experimental Ambient, Improvisation
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Oct 12, 2023It's ambient music at its absolute best, providing a space that the listener can be enveloped in completely just as easily as they can drift away from it without noticing.
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Oct 16, 2023Across Goodbye, Hotel Arkada, she continues to craft poignant work that tints the atmosphere, transporting the listener to the remembrances and moments of imagination that float freely within the mind's eye.
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Oct 12, 2023All of these tracks are elevated considerably by Lattimore’s production chops, as the skilled performances are turned into vast ambient soundscapes and she proves herself to be her best accompanist. If anyone in the alternative electronic world has been unaware of Mary Lattimore up until now, this album is a perfect insight into her creative abilities.
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The WireDec 7, 2023With unobtrusive, yet telling contributions from friends including Meg Baird, The Cure’s Lol Tolhurst and Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell, she conjures up a bittersweet sense of location and changing times through six pieces that are subtly complementary, in their character and impact, meriting comparison to the finely nuanced ambient soundtracks of Angelo Badalamenti. [Jan/Feb 2024, p.96]
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Nov 29, 2023The album feels wonderfully grounded as such, and is ideally placed as an ambassador for the open-heartedness, peace, and healing that are as key to new age as its otherworldly mystique.
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Oct 31, 2023Goodbye, Hotel Arkada is a fine album and deserves a listen from any fans of experimental, ambient, and electronic music. At times relaxing and others contemplative of life’s great mysteries, it’s a work of beauty and consideration.
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Oct 12, 2023With Goodbye, Hotel Arkada, she invites an array of collaborators to help craft pensive songs that grow out of moments past. While her instrument’s luminous tone remains the music’s defining characteristic, she embraces a darker mood than before.