Hoping Against Hope

by Thinking Plague

Hoping Against Hope cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 10 February 2017
  • Label: Cuneiform Records
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 44:57
  • Community rating: 3.47/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Dani Flaco

Album Notes & Community Reviews

The seventh studio album from the long-running avant-garde rock ensemble stands as one of the most musically challenging and conceptually bleak releases of their career. The tracking features impossibly complex, jagged time signatures, atonal wind arrangements, and Elaine di Falco's theatrical, operatic vocals slicing through the dissonance. The lyricism provides a highly pessimistic, furious critique of global political corruption and environmental destruction.

Genres

Descriptors: uncommon-time-signatures, complex, atonal, dissonant, political

Tracklist

  1. The Echoes of Their Cries (06:37)
  2. Thus Have We Made the World (05:44)
  3. Commuting to Murder (04:44)
  4. Hoping Against Hope (10:06)
  5. The Great Leap Backwards (04:01)
  6. A Dirge for the Unwitting (13:45)

Credits

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