Hopewell - Beautiful Targets

A brief scan of heraldic press clippings from CMJ, the Village Voice, NME, Time Out, Wire, Magnet divulges a clear journalistic pattern of enthusiastically describing Hopewell in terms of opposition: delicate / visceral, sublime / stabbing, immense / fragile. Far more than evidence for a collection of tired journalistic tropes, those who follow the group recognise volatility as immediate and clear touchstone of both its music and it’s history. With their new album Hopewell have come to fully recognise, embrace, and explore this tension to mature and stunning conclusion. Their latest offering showcases a band at the height of their creativity. Somewhere in the anthemic soaring strings of ‘Tree’, the pop prowess of ‘Bethlehem’ and the shrieking maelstrom of ‘Windy Day’, the band makes it clear they are dead serious. Serious about outdoing themselves, seriously determined to make lasting, genre defining music and seriously out to break the listeners heart. The third full-length album finds Hopewell perfecting their inherent gift for drama.  ‘Beautiful Targets’ was produced by Bill Racine (Rogue Wave / Mates Of State) and recorded in the bands beloved upstate New York wilderness in 2006. Hopewell has performed with British Sea Power, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Mike Watt, The Black Angels and more.

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