The groundbreaking band’s 10th studio album, Hotel Last Resort resides among Violent Femmes’ finest work, simultaneously refining and redefining their one-of-a-kind take on American music, mingling front porch folk, post-punk, spiritual jazz, country blues, avant-garde improvisation, and golden age rock ‘n’ roll.
Founded and fronted by Gano and Ritchie, the group remains as warm, wise and weird as ever before, with such new favourites as “Another Chorus” and “Everlasting You” continuing to mine the vast range of ideas, melodic complexity, and organic sonic craftsmanship that has characterised the band’s body of work since their landmark 1983 debut.