Paradise Motel - Live from RRR
Music Release
Seven members and they still evoked something larger than themselves. Seven. Watching The Paradise Motel felt like being at the beach on a sunny day. Not only for the gentle melodiousness of it all, but for the moody weight of the water—crashing and breaking. And O.K, just because their restraint could land them in some (fairly tenuous by some estimations) serious Adult Contemporary territory, it doesn’t mean the kids can’t go for it too. There were plenty of all ages along to the Performance Space for the first instalment of the latest RRR seasonal showcase—Autumn Almanac.
Campbell McDonell Shaw’s violin groan and pluckery set The Paradise Motel apart. And while Merida Sussex’s calm yet pitching vocals proved prominent, the guitars, bass, drums and organ did well to prop up but refrain from encroaching too far onto McDonell Shaw’s fiddling. The few moments the entire band converged screamed impressive. It was, however, the fragmentality of the performance that inspired—each instrument given its own moment in the sun, to flicker and fade.
