Coming March 21st, 2025
A Mountain Fastness, our new album.
First listen's on us!
First listen's on us!
How’s it going? Thanks so much for taking the time out of your day for us. We love you for that and we’re excited for you to hear what we’ve been cookin’ up!
Check out this hidden playlist of our entire new record before we release it into the wild on March 21st, 2025.
Singles Release Schedule:
Amaretto Thundersong 1/21/25
‘87 Bambi 2/11/25
Town Full of Losers 2/25/25
Breakfast for Andre 3/11/25
Like what you hear? Reach out to us here! Let’s stay in touch and keep the conversation going 👋
From a Distance
Hotel of the Laughing Tree is the musical collaboration between AJ Estrada, Brandon Peterson, Neil Scalesse, and Jonathon Streker. With a history spent sharing the stage together throughout countless venues and DIY dungeons up the East Coast, they now reside in their respective states of Ohio, Tennessee, and Massachusetts, working digitally to create new records.
Established in 2008 with the release of Old Dominion, the band has released six full length records, toured extensively, and are previous MTVu award winners. With a DIY ethos, everything from their music, videos, artwork and band merchandise has been self-produced out of a pure love of making things. “Melody is King” has been the groups guiding mantra, and north star.
Although you’ll be sure to find elements of dynamic riffage, lush soundscapes and unique instrumentation sprinkled throughout, Hotel’s musical priorities remain in service to the song. At the end of the day, Hotel have crafted a treasure trove of catchy melodies to uncover, bounce around in your head, and hopefully make you lean in to see what’s happening just beneath the surface.
For all booking, media inquiries or just saying hello, feel free to reach out to us here!
“The band is at a point where they’re genuinely making music purely for the love of it. ”
“This is a record rife with mature production and songwriting, and it’s proof the years apart have not merely been idle. This is how to reintroduce yourself. Welcome back, guys.”
“This is a band that knows that life is precious and should be celebrated at every turn ”
“Exquisitely nostalgic and soaked in the heaviness of storytelling that reveals just enough emotional and culture cues to make you want to know the song’s back story in total.”
The follow up to Faraway Friends would have never happened without the idea of making a retrospective podcast about the band.
Once the conversations started, relationships were rekindled and ideas spread like wildfire. Soon, after a productive winter of dropbox files, discord messages, and many late nights, there was a new album ready to be heard.
A Mountain Fastness was made purely out of love for music and admiration of one another. Full of energy and grit, A Mountain Fastness boasts all of Hotel’s strengths — crafting a familiar sound while also venturing off into uncharted territory.
A Mountain Fastness
We pride ourselves on being a full DIY operation. This includes writing, producing, recording, managing, and marketing our body of work. After the music is done, all of the band’s artwork and visual branding is also created by us.
DIY Life
This album was made possible by the following:
Fender
Gibson
Gretsch
Orange
Reverend
Vox
Avid
oeksound
Universal Audio
Safari Pedals
Native Instruments
Softube
Spitfire Audio
Slate Digital
Ludwig
Hologram Electronics
Reverend Guitars
Zildjian
Vic Firth
Chase Bliss
Remo
Lowboy Beaters
Soundtoys
Videos & More
Our first Podcast
We’re continuing where we left off on our podcast: SONGS OUT OF SEASON - a deep dive on our music and career from the past 15 years.
Hands down the most fun we’ve had in a very long time, and I’m happy to say you can truly hear it in these sessions. New Episode coming soon, to pair with our album release!
Say Hello
Have a question about what we’re up to? Send us a message, and we promise to get back to you ASAP. 💛 For all inquiries, use this form or email us at hotelofthelaughingtree@gmail.com