Photo by Dylan Cox
Liverpool quartet Honey Motel finalise their latest evolution with Motel FM, flicking through nostalgic hazes and indie energy across six tracks. Each track has a slightly different style, but all are built on the same foundations. They carry a welcome chaos, showing off their musicianship, rising up to high highs filled with noise or leaving the vocals alone to tell the story.
With Motel FM, this is a band matured, well-produced, perfectly textured and able to throw in confident added flair to their sound, giving it a unique spark. Whether it’s silky, sharp or choppy, it always has an uplift and an optimism, even in its more reserved, reflective moments. A full soundscape at every turn, whether the bricks are made of jazz, alt-pop, psychedelia or classic rock, the monument built is mesmerising.
The band add, “This is our debut EP as a quartet – six tracks stitched together from chaos, boredom, love, and quiet dread. It’s for the losers, the weirdos, the misfits, the ones who feel they don’t belong but keep tuning in anyway, the ones that mirror ourselves. These songs pull from the anchors that keep us steady, the slow bleed of bottling everything up, the absurdity of a world where the façade is cracking, and the strange comfort of drifting through the noise with someone who makes it all feel okay.
By the time the signal spirals into a cosmic fever dream, we’re not sure if it’s the end of the world or just the end of the broadcast, and maybe that’s the point. This is our invitation to join the broadcast, to dive headfirst into the swamp of loserdom, and to see where the signal takes you.”
Formed in their home city and flourishing from a teenage friendship, the project has had multiple iterations, with the latest lineup finalised at Liverpool Sound City, invoking a new era of momentum. Opening for The Lottery Winners on their chart-topping KOKO tour, landing on Apple Music’s New in Rock, and earning support from Radio X and BBC Introducing, they’ve undoubtedly become names worth talking about. The band have truly, with the EP, found their frequency.
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