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Hotel Lights: Firecracker People

By Christel Loar

Hotel Lights' songs are deceptively quiet and unassuming, yet have the capacity to steal a way into your soul. [19 August 2008]

Hotel Lights: Hotel Lights

By Michael Franco

Wistful and understated, the debut album by former Ben Folds Five drummer Darren Jesse and his band is often subtly beautiful; sometimes it's nice to feel lonely. [22 March 2006]