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Expensive Vomit in a Cheap Hotel is the second album by Minnesota-based band Sleeping in the Aviary. Originally released on October 14, 2008, it was re-released on vinyl on July 26, 2012. The band's frontman, Elliott Kozel, wrote some of the album's songs in a hospital in Colorado waiting to find out if his mom would die (she didn't). The album was recorded soon after Kozel's mother's hospitalization, as well as a co-worker's brain aneurysm and a friend's drug overdose. He has since said that he didn't like Expensive Vomit very much and that he thought there were "four good songs" on it, and the album's style was "a conscious response to Panic! at the Disco’s last album", saying, "They weren’t keeping it real so we thought we’d try to add some flavor."
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Reception
The album received mainly positive reviews; for example, The A.V. Club wrote that it "opens up the band’s tender side amid its lo-fi scars and unruly freak-outs," and Katjusa Cisar described it as "a blistering and catchy mix of punk, folk and rock". It was also ranked as the second best Madison album of 2008 by Rich Albertoni in Isthmus and one of the 10 best "albums you didn't hear" of 2008 by Magnet. Well-known music critic Robert Christgau awarded the album an A- and later ranked it #43 on his Dean's List for 2008.
Personnel
- Elliott Kozel—vocals, guitar, songwriting
- Phil Mahlstadt—bass guitar
- Kyle Sobchak—guitar
- Celeste Huele—accordion, musical saw
- Michael Sienkowski—drums
Songs
1Write On3:06
2Calm Me Down3:32
3Gas Mask Blues5:06