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Hotel Last Resort is the tenth studio album by American rock band Violent Femmes. The album was released on July 26, 2019, by Add It Up Productions and PIAS Recordings. The cover art is a picture of the Eastlink hotel sculpture in Australia.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	68/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
American Songwriter
Consequence of Sound	C−
Exclaim!	6/10
The Guardian
Rolling Stone
The Skinny

Hotel Last Resort received generally positive reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 68, which indicates "generally favorable reviews", based on 12 reviews.

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Another Chorus"	2:38
2.	"I Get What I Want"	2:30
3.	"I'm Nothing" (featuring Stefan Janoski)	2:26
4.	"Adam Was a Man"	2:59
5.	"Not OK"	2:34
6.	"Hotel Last Resort" (featuring Tom Verlaine)	5:12
7.	"Everlasting You"	2:13
8.	"It's All or Nothing"	2:25
9.	"I'm Not Gonna Cry"	2:56
10.	"This Free Ride"	2:14
11.	"Paris to Sleep"	3:38
12.	"Sleepin' at the Meetin'"	1:38
13.	"God Bless America"	4:40
Total length:		38:03

Personnel

Gordon Gano – lead vocals, guitars
Brian Ritchie – acoustic bass guitar, baritone guitar, percussion, vocals
John Sparrow – drums, percussion, vocals
Blaise Garza – contrabass, baritone and sopranino saxophones; piano, harmonium, theremin, vocals
Tom Verlaine – guitar (track 6)
Stefan Janoski – vocals (track 3)
Aixa Vilar, Go Betty Go, Michelle Rangel, Nicolette Vilar, Todd Piotrowski – vocals (track 1)

Charts

Chart (2019)	Peak position
US Independent Albums (Billboard)	29

References

"Hotel Last Resort by Violent Femmes on Apple Music". Music.apple.com. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
Ryan Reed (2019-04-30). "Hear Violent Femmes' New Song With Tom Verlaine, 'Hotel Last Resort'". Rollingstone.com. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
^ "Hotel Last Resort by Violent Femmes Reviews and Tracks". Metacritic. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
Fred Thomas. "Hotel Last Resort - Violent Femmes". AllMusic. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
"Violent Femmes: Hotel Last Resort". Americansongwriter.com. 2019-07-25. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
Coney, Brian (2019-08-01). "Violent Femmes - Hotel Last Resort". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
Brzozowski, Sophie (2019-07-26). "Violent Femmes Hotel Last Resort". Exclaim.ca. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
Michael Hann (2019-07-26). "Violent Femmes: Hotel Last Resort review – vigorously middling". The Guardian. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
Kory Grow (2019-07-29). "Review: Violent Femmes' 'Hotel Last Resort'". Rollingstone.com. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
Bethany Davison (2019-07-24). "Violent Femmes album review: Hotel Last Resort". The Skinny. Retrieved 2019-10-28.
"Violent Femmes Chart History (Independent Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved October 28, 2019.

v t e Violent Femmes
Gordon Gano Brian Ritchie John Sparrow Victor DeLorenzo Guy Hoffman Brian Viglione
Studio albums	Violent Femmes Hallowed Ground The Blind Leading the Naked 3 Why Do Birds Sing? New Times Rock!!!!! Freak Magnet We Can Do Anything Hotel Last Resort
Live albums	Viva Wisconsin BBC Live Archive Series No. 1: Live in Iceland Archive Series No. 2: Live in Chicago Q101 2 Mics & the Truth
Compilations	Debacle: The First Decade Add It Up (1981–1993) Something's Wrong Permanent Record: The Very Best of Violent Femmes
Extended plays	Happy New Year
Video albums	Permanent Record: Live & Otherwise
Singles	"Gone Daddy Gone" "Children of the Revolution" "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" "Crazy"
Promotional singles	"Blister in the Sun"
Other songs	"Add It Up"
Related articles	Discography

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