Saint Motel

(Los Angeles, United States)

'Saint Motel makes chic and sprightly music with hints of ironic malevolence. On “Voyeur,” the group’s first full-length release, the guitars clang briskly while the vocals ascend from high tenor to outright falsetto. Sometimes, a sample, shout or horn-section riff will enter to bounce an already airborne song even higher.The band members have a strong sense of style: The way singer-guitarist A/J Jackson and his cohorts inject Caribbean lilts