London newcomers Winter Hotel have emerged from a testing year with their rookie EP Vacancies. The collection is awash with an energy fed by a year of pandemic-fueled strife; prolific sonic co-ordination means that the experimental and at times obtuse guitar interactions are mesmerizingly integrated into the heartbeat of the tracks. “Lovers at Bay,” a nod to the band’s origins in windswept Bangor, Wales, is a fitting opener that pre-warns of the diversity of techniques and influences that are to be set out over the course of the collection. “Waste,” perhaps the heaviest song on the record, surmises the gravity of the push and pull on Vacancies, hitting like a death-metal hurricane, before Winter Hotel summon the somewhat more accessible, metalcore headbanger “The Exorcist’s Daughter.” Cl...
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