Hotline

"In speaking on the making of Blue Joni Mitchell once remarked "I felt like a cellophane wrapper on a pack of cigarettes. I felt like I had absolutely no secrets from the world". The music of Raleigh's Hotline aspires for a similar directness and vulnerability. After the dissolution of his previous band, songwriter Ryan Trauley and three long-time collaborators formed Hotline with the intention of making a "soul" record. What followed was a period of creative growth. On their forthcoming full-length and in the live context, Hotline channel the American lineage of soul, pop, and singer-songwriter into intimate, but expansive groove poems."