Gold Motel came together after Greta Morgan (vocals, keys) returned from her time spent writing in Los Angeles. They performed for the first time in December of 2009 with a sold out headlining show in their hometown of chicago at The Beat Kitchen, coinciding with the release of the Gold Motel EP. Summer House, the band's full-lenth album, was released in June 2010. The Talking Fiction 7 was released in November 2010 and features Cold Shoulders and Slow Emergency , which will also be on Gold Motel s new self-titled album. After two years of touring and supporting Summer House, Gold Motel began pre-production for their new album in Los Angeles, CA, splitting their time between rehearsals in a house up in the hills of Laurel Canyon and a pool-house in Glendale. The band continued pre-production back in Chicago and began preliminary recording in September of 2011 in guitarist Dan Duzsynski s home-studio, DandySounds Studios. Like Summer House and Talking Fiction, Gold Motel was engineered by Duzsynski and self-produced by the band.