Motel Radio "Garden" 2025-09-26 released on November 1

released on November 1

The release includes the original liner notes by Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo

"The Only Exception" from 2009's platinum Brand New Eyes

WillPower and DJ Paul

and their music just kept getting louder and stranger and more savage

Motel Radio "Garden" 2025-09-26 released on November 1Written and recorded in the midst of a dizzying stretch in which nearly everything about the way the band lived and worked was turned on its head, The Garden is indeed a work of relentless hope. The songs are profoundly vulnerable here, and the performances are warm and breezy, calling to mind everything from Andy Shauf and Cass McCombs to Beck and Tame Impala with an easygoing demeanor that belies the deep emotional work underpinning them. Motel