SPILL ALBUM REVIEW: ADELINE HOTEL – WHODUNNIT

ADELINE HOTEL
WHODUNNIT
RUINATION RECORDS

When artists pick up monikers, these may be telling signs, and yet, they may not be. Brooklyn’s Dan Knishkowy goes under one – Adeline Hotel, and based on his latest album Whodunnit, that moniker can be both telling and not.

On one hand, there is an actual hotel (and a wellness centre and a spa) under that name, and you might add here that the official Elliott Smith site is named Sweet Adeline. And yes, Knishkowy’s music has some therapeutic healing effects and has a sense of kinship with what the late great Elliott Smith was creating.

On the other hand, Knishkowy has a distinct, individual songwriting and performing style that sets him apart from what is considered the ‘usual’ singer/songwriter fare, which he combines with equally distinct lyrics where the music he creates makes a fitting foil, where two epithets might do the trick – subtle and sublime.

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