| Expensive Vomit in a Cheap Hotel | ||||
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| Released | October 14, 2008 [1] | |||
| Genre | Pop/Rock | |||
| Length | 45:40 | |||
| Label | Science of Sound | |||
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Expensive Vomit in a Cheap Hotel is the second album by Minnesota-based band Sleeping in the Aviary. Originally released on October 14, 2008, it was re-released on vinyl on July 26, 2012. [2]
Sleeping in the Aviary's frontman, Elliott Kozel, wrote some of the songs on Expensive Vomit in a Cheap Hotel while in a hospital in Colorado waiting to find out if his mom would die (she didn't). [2] The album was recorded soon after Kozel's mother's hospitalization, as well as a co-worker's brain aneurysm and a friend's drug overdose. [3] He has since said that he didn't like Expensive Vomit very much and that he thought there were "four good songs" on it, [2] and the album's style was "a conscious response to Panic! at the Disco’s last album", saying, "They weren’t keeping it real so we thought we’d try to add some flavor." [4] An article in Free Press Houston noted that Expensive Vomit's music took "a decidedly more folky and weighty approach" than did Sleeping in the Aviary's previous album, Oh, This Old Thing? . [5]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |    [6] |
| Alternative Press | 3/5 [7] |
| The Badger Herald | [8] |
| MSN Music (Expert Witness) | A– [9] |
| No Ripcord | 6/10 [10] |
| Punknews.org | [11] |
| Three Imaginary Girls | 8.5/10 [12] |
The album received mainly positive reviews; for example, The A.V. Club wrote that it "opens up the band’s tender side amid its lo-fi scars and unruly freak-outs," [13] and Katjusa Cisar described it as "a blistering and catchy mix of punk, folk and rock". [14] Cisar later named the album one of the best Madison releases of 2008. [15] It was also ranked as the second best Madison album of 2008 by Rich Albertoni in Isthmus [16] and one of the 10 best "albums you didn't hear" of 2008 by Magnet . [17] Well-known music critic Robert Christgau awarded the album an A−, later ranking it #43 on his Dean's List for 2008. [18]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Write On" | 3:05 |
| 2. | "Calm Me Down" | 3:32 |
| 3. | "Gas Mask Blues" | 5:05 |
| 4. | "Maybe You're the Same" | 3:54 |
| 5. | "Things Look Good" | 2:56 |
| 6. | "I'm Old" | 2:46 |
| 7. | "Everybody's Different, Everybody Dies" | 2:42 |
| 8. | "You're a Party" | 4:11 |
| 9. | "Ladybug Death Song" | 4:01 |
| 10. | "Girl in the Ground" | 4:13 |
| 11. | "Windshield" | 9:15 |
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