Hotel Last Resort

Brand new sealed album from Violent Femmes.

Has there ever been a rocker more comically perpetually unsatisfied than Gordon Gano? Nearly 40 years have passed since the Violent Femmes debuted their freaky, silly hybrid of folk and rock, and these days they’ve settled comfortably into a style that’s a bit like Bob Dylan meets Monty Python (or sometimes S.J. Perelman). Frontman Gordon Gano still has a beautifully quivering bleat, and on Hotel Last Resort — the group’s 10th full-length and second since reuniting in 2013 — he flexes it hilariously on songs about how he hates choruses (“Another Chorus”), believes in nothing (a revamped version of the group’s New Times cut “I’m Nothing” from 1994), and lampoons the book of Genesis (“Adam Was a Man”).