We’re big fans of Dan Knishkowy’s Adeline Hotel, featuring the project several times, most recently the album It’s Alright, Just the Same back in 2016. That record was an emotional one, built on melancholy foundations, what we described as “an album about conflict between old and new, here and there, him and her. A conflict between the past and the future with the present caught in the crossfire, hopes and heartbreak old and new swirling the narrator’s head so that he can no longer feel the sun on his face.”
The good news is that Adeline Hotel is back with a brand new album. Due for release at the end of October, away together is a collection of ten songs that might signal a change in outlook, at least if lead single ‘Habits’ is anything to go by. It’s probably the happiest, most positive Adeline Hotel song to date, a fact which Knishkowy readily admits in an interview with our pals over at The Grey Estates. “‘Habits’ might be the first unabashedly joyful Adeline Hotel song,” he says, “one for windows down driving as summer fades to fall.”
This is true from the song’s very beginning, the whole thing suffused with a sense of golden sunlight, languorous percussion and dreamy guitar providing the perfect foil to Knishkowy’s smooth and earnest vocals.
“What if I could be so happy now
Isn’t that enough?”
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The beautiful album artwork, again by Chrissy Ziegler, captures the mood of the record perfectly, especially in comparison to the cover of It’s Alright, Just the Same. Stylistically both pieces are very similar, quite obviously from the same hand, but there’s no denying a complete change in tone—gone is the shadowy blue, the murky greens – replaced instead by a cleaner off-white background and warm fragments of colour.
away together is due for release in October, and you can pre-order it now from the Adeline Hotel Bandcamp page.
