Motel Du Cap
Motel Du Cap is the eighth album by the American rock band Good Charlotte, released on August 8, 2025, under Atlantic Records. It is their first album in seven years, following 2018's Generation Rx. The album was announced on June 17, with the lead single "Rejects" released on June 25. This marks the band's first album without their drummer Dean Butterworth after his departure from the band in early 2025.
Personnel
Credits adapted from Tidal.Good Charlotte
- Benji Madden – guitar, vocals ; bass, keyboards
- Joel Madden – vocals
- Paul Thomas – bass
- Billy Martin – guitar
Additional musicians
- Ian Longwell – drums
- Mattias Bylund – strings arrangement, string synthesizer, conductor
- David Bukovinszky – cello
- Mattias Johansson – violin
- Erik Arvinder – conductor, strings arrangement
- Bård Ericson – double bass
- Erik Holm – viola
- James Opie – viola
- Vidar Andersson Meilink – viola
- Anna Roos Stefansson – violin
- Daniel Bonfiglioli – violin
- Fredrik Syberg – violin
- Jannika Gustafsson – violin
- Lola Torrente – violin
- Oscar Treitler – violin
- Stockholm Studio Orchestra – orchestra
- Andreas Lavotha – cello
- Fred Lindberg – cello
- Pelle Hansen – cello
- Samuel Coppin – cello
- Sigrid Granit – double bass
- Riikka Repo – viola
- Carl Vallin – violin
- Claudia Bonfiglioli – violin
- Daniel Migdal – violin
- Paul Waltman – violin
- Åsa Wirdefeldt – violin
- Marcus Anderson – voiceover
- Andrew Goldstein – additional guitar, additional vocals, keyboards, programming
- Antonio Roland – cello
- Peter Volpert – cello
- Tomas Lundström – cello
- Christopher Öhman – viola
- Iskandar Komilov – violin
- Patrik Swedrup – violin
- Sofie Sunnerstam – violin
- Veronika Novotna – violin
- Yongmin Lee – violin
- Wiz Khalifa – vocals
- Zeph – vocals
- Luke Borchelt – vocals
- Petti Hendrix – vocals
- Johan Carlsson – guitar ; bass, keyboards ; piano
- Charlie Puth – bass, guitar, keyboards
- Svend Lurch – drums
- Karl Guner – string synthesizer
- Hanna Helgegren – violin
Technical
- Jordan Fish – production
- Zakk Cervini – production, mixing (recorded music)|mixing]
- Andrew Goldstein – production
- Charlie Puth – production, engineering
- Johan Carlsson – production
- Warren Russell – additional production
- Ted Jensen – mastering
- Erik Arvinder – engineering, strings engineering
- Willem Bleeker – engineering
- Nick Morzov – engineering
- Svend Lerch – engineering
- Mattias Bylund – engineering, strings engineering, editing software|editing]
- Julian Gargiulo – mixing assistance