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A brief scan of heraldic press clippings from the CMJ, the Village Voice, NME, Time Out, Wire and Magnet divulges a clear journalistic pattern of enthusiastically describing Hopewell in terms of opposition: delicate & visceral, sublime & stabbing, crushing & romantic, immense & fragile. Those who follow the group recognize volatility as an immediate and clear touchstone of both its music and its history.With their new album Beautiful Targets coming out in the summer of 2007 on Tee Pee Records, Hopewell have come to fully recognize, embrace and explore this tension to mature and stunning conclusion.
Their latest offering, produced by Bill Racine (Rogue Wave, Mates Of State) and Max Avery Lichtenstein (Camphor, Mercury Rev) and recorded in the band's beloved upstate New York wilderness in 2006, showcases a band at the height of their creativity. Somewhere in the anthemic soaring strings of Tree, the pop prowess of Bethlehem, and the whirling maelstrom of Windy Day, the band makes it clear that they are dead serious; serious about outdoing themselves, seriously determined to make lasting, genre-defying music, and seriously out to break the listener's heart. Their latest album finds Hopewell perfecting their inherent gift for drama. Characters in the loosely connected narrative are human to a fault, clashing and rejoicing as the music threatens to overwhelm them, often veering off into unexpected tenderness at the last minute. Where their previous efforts honored turmoil and chaos, this is the sound of a band who has survived and managed to make something beautiful out of their struggle.
When founder Jason Russo was 19 years old he was plucked out of the small town of Hopewell Jct, NY to traverse the world with the now legendary Mercury Rev. Following Revs breakthrough record Deserters Songs, he struck out on his own to promote the critically acclaimed The Curved Glass. Hopewell met with equal measures of success and tragicomedy. The band played the Reading/Leeds festival in the UK, recorded a Peel Session, and traveled extensive through Europe and the UK. This notoriety led to the opportunity work with uber producer Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips) on what became 2005's space rock opera Hopewell & The Birds Of Appetite. Named "Best album of 2005" by KEXP the record is a document of the bands near destruction. In fighting, line up changes, hospitalizations & rehab stints fueled the dramatic cathartic anthems. Weeks before a sold out Bowery Ballroom show in NYC, drummer Jay Green tumbled down 5 flights of stairs in an accident that resulted in partial amnesia and the loss of all sense of taste and smell. Incidents like this coupled with a grueling tour schedule would have caused a lesser band to fold but a curious thing happened; Hopewell found the hardships on the road glavanized them. A new found sense of comraderie coupled with the warm reception the band recieved inspired them to record in between cross country trips. The result is the joyful noise of Beautiful Targets.
Hopewell's devastating live shows - unveiling a performance that supplements rock instrumentation with additional percussion, orchestral arrangements and bellowing horns - have left packed houses clamoring for more and drawn drop-jawed reviews from the most stoic of journalists. They have performed internationally with British Sea Power, Elefant, the Sleepy Jackson, the Comas, The Posies, Goldrush, Mike Watt, the Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Black Angels.
Their latest offering, produced by Bill Racine (Rogue Wave, Mates Of State) and Max Avery Lichtenstein (Camphor, Mercury Rev) and recorded in the band's beloved upstate New York wilderness in 2006, showcases a band at the height of their creativity. Somewhere in the anthemic soaring strings of Tree, the pop prowess of Bethlehem, and the whirling maelstrom of Windy Day, the band makes it clear that they are dead serious; serious about outdoing themselves, seriously determined to make lasting, genre-defying music, and seriously out to break the listener's heart. Their latest album finds Hopewell perfecting their inherent gift for drama. Characters in the loosely connected narrative are human to a fault, clashing and rejoicing as the music threatens to overwhelm them, often veering off into unexpected tenderness at the last minute. Where their previous efforts honored turmoil and chaos, this is the sound of a band who has survived and managed to make something beautiful out of their struggle.
When founder Jason Russo was 19 years old he was plucked out of the small town of Hopewell Jct, NY to traverse the world with the now legendary Mercury Rev. Following Revs breakthrough record Deserters Songs, he struck out on his own to promote the critically acclaimed The Curved Glass. Hopewell met with equal measures of success and tragicomedy. The band played the Reading/Leeds festival in the UK, recorded a Peel Session, and traveled extensive through Europe and the UK. This notoriety led to the opportunity work with uber producer Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips) on what became 2005's space rock opera Hopewell & The Birds Of Appetite. Named "Best album of 2005" by KEXP the record is a document of the bands near destruction. In fighting, line up changes, hospitalizations & rehab stints fueled the dramatic cathartic anthems. Weeks before a sold out Bowery Ballroom show in NYC, drummer Jay Green tumbled down 5 flights of stairs in an accident that resulted in partial amnesia and the loss of all sense of taste and smell. Incidents like this coupled with a grueling tour schedule would have caused a lesser band to fold but a curious thing happened; Hopewell found the hardships on the road glavanized them. A new found sense of comraderie coupled with the warm reception the band recieved inspired them to record in between cross country trips. The result is the joyful noise of Beautiful Targets.
Hopewell's devastating live shows - unveiling a performance that supplements rock instrumentation with additional percussion, orchestral arrangements and bellowing horns - have left packed houses clamoring for more and drawn drop-jawed reviews from the most stoic of journalists. They have performed internationally with British Sea Power, Elefant, the Sleepy Jackson, the Comas, The Posies, Goldrush, Mike Watt, the Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Black Angels.
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A brief scan of heraldic press clippings from the CMJ, the Village Voice, NME, Time Out, Wire and Magnet divulges a clear journalistic pattern of enthusiastically describing Hopewell in terms of opposition: delicate & visceral, sublime & stabbing, crushing & romantic, immense & fragile. Those who follow the group recognize volatility as an immediate and clear touchstone of both its music and its history.With their new album Beautiful Targets coming out in the summer of 2007 on Tee Pee Records, Hopewell have come to fully recognize, embrace and explore this tension to mature and stunning conclusion.
Their latest offering, produced by Bill Racine (Rogue Wave, Mates Of State) and Max Avery Lichtenstein (Camphor, Mercury Rev) and recorded in the band's beloved upstate New York wilderness in 2006, showcases a band at the height of their creativity. Somewhere in the anthemic soaring strings of Tree, the pop prowess of Bethlehem, and the whirling maelstrom of Windy Day, the band makes it clear that they are dead serious; serious about outdoing themselves, seriously determined to make lasting, genre-defying music, and seriously out to break the listener's heart. Their latest album finds Hopewell perfecting their inherent gift for drama. Characters in the loosely connected narrative are human to a fault, clashing and rejoicing as the music threatens to overwhelm them, often veering off into unexpected tenderness at the last minute. Where their previous efforts honored turmoil and chaos, this is the sound of a band who has survived and managed to make something beautiful out of their struggle.
When founder Jason Russo was 19 years old he was plucked out of the small town of Hopewell Jct, NY to traverse the world with the now legendary Mercury Rev. Following Revs breakthrough record Deserters Songs, he struck out on his own to promote the critically acclaimed The Curved Glass. Hopewell met with equal measures of success and tragicomedy. The band played the Reading/Leeds festival in the UK, recorded a Peel Session, and traveled extensive through Europe and the UK. This notoriety led to the opportunity work with uber producer Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips) on what became 2005's space rock opera Hopewell & The Birds Of Appetite. Named "Best album of 2005" by KEXP the record is a document of the bands near destruction. In fighting, line up changes, hospitalizations & rehab stints fueled the dramatic cathartic anthems. Weeks before a sold out Bowery Ballroom show in NYC, drummer Jay Green tumbled down 5 flights of stairs in an accident that resulted in partial amnesia and the loss of all sense of taste and smell. Incidents like this coupled with a grueling tour schedule would have caused a lesser band to fold but a curious thing happened; Hopewell found the hardships on the road glavanized them. A new found sense of comraderie coupled with the warm reception the band recieved inspired them to record in between cross country trips. The result is the joyful noise of Beautiful Targets.
Hopewell's devastating live shows - unveiling a performance that supplements rock instrumentation with additional percussion, orchestral arrangements and bellowing horns - have left packed houses clamoring for more and drawn drop-jawed reviews from the most stoic of journalists. They have performed internationally with British Sea Power, Elefant, the Sleepy Jackson, the Comas, The Posies, Goldrush, Mike Watt, the Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Black Angels.
Their latest offering, produced by Bill Racine (Rogue Wave, Mates Of State) and Max Avery Lichtenstein (Camphor, Mercury Rev) and recorded in the band's beloved upstate New York wilderness in 2006, showcases a band at the height of their creativity. Somewhere in the anthemic soaring strings of Tree, the pop prowess of Bethlehem, and the whirling maelstrom of Windy Day, the band makes it clear that they are dead serious; serious about outdoing themselves, seriously determined to make lasting, genre-defying music, and seriously out to break the listener's heart. Their latest album finds Hopewell perfecting their inherent gift for drama. Characters in the loosely connected narrative are human to a fault, clashing and rejoicing as the music threatens to overwhelm them, often veering off into unexpected tenderness at the last minute. Where their previous efforts honored turmoil and chaos, this is the sound of a band who has survived and managed to make something beautiful out of their struggle.
When founder Jason Russo was 19 years old he was plucked out of the small town of Hopewell Jct, NY to traverse the world with the now legendary Mercury Rev. Following Revs breakthrough record Deserters Songs, he struck out on his own to promote the critically acclaimed The Curved Glass. Hopewell met with equal measures of success and tragicomedy. The band played the Reading/Leeds festival in the UK, recorded a Peel Session, and traveled extensive through Europe and the UK. This notoriety led to the opportunity work with uber producer Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips) on what became 2005's space rock opera Hopewell & The Birds Of Appetite. Named "Best album of 2005" by KEXP the record is a document of the bands near destruction. In fighting, line up changes, hospitalizations & rehab stints fueled the dramatic cathartic anthems. Weeks before a sold out Bowery Ballroom show in NYC, drummer Jay Green tumbled down 5 flights of stairs in an accident that resulted in partial amnesia and the loss of all sense of taste and smell. Incidents like this coupled with a grueling tour schedule would have caused a lesser band to fold but a curious thing happened; Hopewell found the hardships on the road glavanized them. A new found sense of comraderie coupled with the warm reception the band recieved inspired them to record in between cross country trips. The result is the joyful noise of Beautiful Targets.
Hopewell's devastating live shows - unveiling a performance that supplements rock instrumentation with additional percussion, orchestral arrangements and bellowing horns - have left packed houses clamoring for more and drawn drop-jawed reviews from the most stoic of journalists. They have performed internationally with British Sea Power, Elefant, the Sleepy Jackson, the Comas, The Posies, Goldrush, Mike Watt, the Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Black Angels.
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