Willie's Ride Me Back Home sits beside 2017's God's Problem Child and 2018's Last Man Standing as a trilogy of superior song craft exploring ideas of mortality with wisdom
In 2019 Ben contributed to the Brainwaves project alongside fellow Erased Tapes artists Michael Price and Hˆgni Egilsson in collaboration with a team of scientists at Goldsmiths University
Types of songs never before expected of the band make appearances here
Working with soil and plants gave him some life back
was completely ignored by media and public
The Hotelier Goodness 12/18/20 Willie's Ride Me Back HomeIt is not enough to say that The Hotelier have grown older, or wiser, or more of anything. We can trace a progression, if we like, from the explosive empowerment of It Never Goes Out to the ashen disillusionment of Home, Like Noplace Is There. We can follow an awakening of youth in suburbia attempting to learn what is right, and what is ours, and what is possible and impossible, and maybe we can't save each other like we thought we once could. We're