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Heartbroke Motel

by Animal Scream

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Bad Dreams 04:01
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Cannibals 03:53
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Good Times 03:58
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about

Heartbroke Motel builds on Nightwalk’s simmering noir textures, and manages to push Animal Scream to new stylistic extremes. “Wicked Jungle,” with its disembodied traces of a vocal hook, is not like anything these musicians have done before: one half scuzzy industrial groove, one half Kid A-style deconstruction. “The Beast with Two Backs,” meanwhile, is a foreboding, two-part instrumental—redolent of the duo’s love of woozy film scores—with a title that references Shakespeare by way of MF DOOM. Or witness the galloping intensity of “Strangled Up in Two,” a high-octane scorcher whose lyrics take inspiration from The Book of Strange New Things, Michel Faber’s 2014 novel about a missionary on an alien planet.

Such unorthodox inspiration sources are de rigueur for these songwriters—the more nightmarish the better. Yet the supernatural dimension of Animal Scream’s music never belies the emotional core underneath. A sense of desolation and loneliness permeates this album. The cover displays a warped image of the house where Sickels once lived. Communication and loss are the weighty themes. “Please don’t come back for me,” Monticue croons on “Forget Your Love,” a sorrowful break-up tune that features mariachi trumpet flourishes by New Orleans musician Josh LeBlanc. It’s one of two songs that reference the titular Heartbroke Motel, a mystical place where haunted memories and demons hang out in perpetuity.

- Zach Schonfeld

"A superior piece of ethereal, specific pop." "The more you play it, the more addicted you become." "This is pop music with a blade to its throat."

- Tony Norman

credits

released April 7, 2023

Produced: Animal Scream
Engineered: Chad Monticue
All Songs Written & Performed: Chad Monticue/Josh Sickels
Mixing/Additional Engineering & Percussion: Jake Hanner
Mastering: Dave Gardner, Infrasonic Sound
Cover Photo/Concept: Animal Scream
Gatefold Photo: Ben Brady
Layout Design: Misanthropulsar
Additional horns on "Bad Dreams"& "Forget Your Love" by Josh LeBlanc
American Hermitage
2023 Evil Motown Music/SESAC

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