Release Date: (July 20, 2010)
Label: Big Records
Producer: Big Head Todd &....

December  Hotel 
Overall Rating:  ++++ 

(Rocksteady)

I've been digging a song called "Back to the Garden" that's got a Caribbean
flavor and Mohr doing a little freestyle rap. The melancholy ballad "After Gold"
makes be sad, but I love it. Kept hitting replay for a while while I was
getting to know the album.

"Smokestack Lightnin" is a cool authentically bluesy tune on which Mohr
actually howls like a wolf (in a good way) . My point it, there's a lot of
variety here. The only track I'm not thrilled about, so far, is the cover of
the Stones "Beast of Burden." I'd rather hear an original BHTM song. And I'm
not really feeling the "Muhammad Ali" tribute. But I admire the band for taking
some risks with this and previous albums.

BHTM's last release, 2008's "All The Love You Need," was also a bit of a
departure for a band unafraid to step into new territory, more than two decades
after their debut. They issued free copies of the CD to 500,000 folks on their
mailing lists (including me!) - who just had to sign up on their website. The
Post calls that move "one of the boldest music industry experiments in recent
memory."
 

~ Michelle Karas