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~ Hope of the States
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  • Audio CD (7 Jun 2004)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Sony
  • ASIN: B000295UZ4
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (30 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 93,663 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

1. Black Amnesias
2. Enemies/Friends
3. 66 Sleepers to Summer
4. Don't Go to Pieces
5. Red the White the Black the Blue
6. Black Dollar Bills
7. George Washington
8. Me Ves y Sufres
9. Sadness on My Back
10. Nehemiah
11. Goodhorsehymn
12. 1776

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Early reports billed Chichester's Hope of the States as "the new Radiohead", but The Lost Riots actually positions them as a fairly conventional rock concern--if one with ambitions far beyond many of their guitar-wielding peers. From just a quick listen to grandiose instrumental opener "The Black Amnesias", it's clear that something of Hope of the States's massive scope has been inherited from bands such as Montreal anarchist's orchestra Godspeed You Black Emperor or Scots instrumental rockers Mogwai. But Hope of the States pull off the commendable trick of twisting avant-garde apocalyptica into bona fide pop songs. In particular, "Enemies/Friends" and "The Red, the White, the Black, the Blue" are some of the strangest records ever to have cracked the UK Top 20, violin-augmented post-rock warships bedecked with billowing guitars and martial drumming, powered by the unblinking fervour of the young and righteous. The excitement occasionally gets a little much for frontman Sam Herlihy, who stretches his voice to painful breaking point on a couple of numbers. Luckily, the regal swathe cut by the likes of "Black Dollar Bills" keeps this fine debut album on track. --Louis Pattison

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A criminally underrated debut, 9 May 2006
By Matt Gibson (Liverpool, UK) - See all my reviews
When I first got 'The Lost Riots' I was a bit disappointed. I bought it off the back of the incendiary call to arms of 'The Red The White The Black The Blue' and was then quite annoyed that the rest of the album was a more sombre affair. To be fair, I had absolutely no idea what I was on about.

HOTS practically bleed sincerity, and while Sam's voice is admittedly terrible, this is not a bad thing. Bob Dylan was no singer, and his cracked and broken voice only made his protest songs better. Exactly the same thing happens here, with Sam howling over a storm of feedback on more than one occasion, sounding like a man with nothing to lose and everything to say.

From the frankly terrifying aural storm of opener 'The Black Amnesias' you know that HOTS are not your average indie rock band, and they prove this again and again throughout the album. Their most commercial songs - 'Nehemiah' and 'The Red The White The Black The Blue' - are still wilfully different to the rest of the stuff in the charts, with weird staccato violins and fuzzy guitars everywhere. Songs like 'Black Dollar Bills' just build and build into a crescendo of sound that is at once soothing and unsettling, and the overall sense is one of despair at the way things are, but also optimism that things can change.

Lyrics, too, are a real highlight with some of the best lines to come out of a British band in years. Forget the 'street' wit of Arctic Monkeys, HOTS know how to create both rabble-rousing slogans ("less politics and dirty tricks/more standing up and shouting out!", "we refuse to live our lives alone/and sell out the only friends we've known") and the kind of depressing beauty that Radiohead do so well ("I used to think I had something to say/but my dumb ideologies gave me away", "so everybody clap your hands together for me/as you watch my world collapse").

From beginning to end, 'The Lost Riots' is a hugely complex, dazzling album combining a number of strange influences into a ferocious and powerful debut. As Sam howls "we fight together and we'll die together" over the dying chords of secret track 'A Crack Up At The Race Riots' you get the sense that you're hearing something *special*. No songs about pulling birds, or indie discos, or how breaking up with your girlfriend is the worst pain ever; HOTS have created an album simultaneously beautiful and harsh, soothing and shocking and hugely involving. Now let's see Arctic Monkeys do that.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Superb debut, 9 Jun 2004
This review is from: The Lost Riots (Audio CD)
Just a comment that the review by mrmckille is copied directly off the HMV website!

The album itself is superb. From the soaring, epic opener of "The Black Amnesias" to the intense and raw "The Red The White The Black The Blue", The Lost Riots is an emotional ride, and one that you'll struggle to get bored with.

Far from being depressing, the lyrics are positive and defiant, looking to the future and not dwindling in the past.

I don't believe it can be compared with Muse or Coldplay's most recent offerings as stated in the earlier review, as HOTS are a vastly different band to the aforementioned.

Off the top of my head, I can't think of a band anything like them. Certainly some tracks could be compared to other bands (The Black Amnesias - Sigur Ros, Mogwai) but the album as a whole is so varied it would be naive to try to pigeon-hole them.

Superb.

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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Hope for the future, 21 Jul 2004
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This review is from: The Lost Riots (Audio CD)
Whatever happened on the way, this was always going to be an important album. Whatever obstacles arose, this was always going to tear through the speakers like an iceberg ripping through the sinking Titanic, grand and melancholy; thudding, juddering and ripping up anything in its wake. For all the shadows that Jimmi Lawrence's death might cast on 'The Lost Riots', Hope Of The States were always going to make a great album. And they have.

Because, for all the fears that their debut would be a pretentious seven hour Dali-esque romp, point blankly refusing to acquaint itself with a tune, 'The Lost Riots' is full of them. From the opening, instrumental heaven-to-hell carnage of 'The Black Amnesias' to the point where violin cacophonies open up 'Goodhorsehymn''s wounds, Hope Of The States push the idea of the song one step further. How, we ask, will you be able to listen to Coldplay again without them descending into a satanic waltz in the middle of 'Clocks', like HOTS do during 'The Red, The White, The Black, The Blue'? Or Keane without Tom Arse-Face spitting bile'n'blood for the cause, like Sam Herlihy does in the climax to 'Nehemiah'?

At a time when authenticity means Kings Of Leon doing their level-best to persuade you that their moustaches are made from the finest hairs in the Southern states, Hope Of The States mean it maaan. Where other bands chug their guitars, HOTS throttle, where they get heavy, HOTS are apocalyptic, where they get gentle, HOTS are heavenly. After 'The Black Amnesias' has sent Mogwai and Godspeed You! Black Emperor hurtling into space as an opening detonation, 'Enemies/Friends' sees Herhily adopt Billy Corgan's funereal croak, his voice almost cracking as guitars jag and chime around him, while 'Black Dollar Bills' is a haunting, broken-hearted ballad, the first half claustrophobic and sung from an underground bunker, the second half crashing, escaping and hopeful. Indeed, 'hope' is mentioned in almost every song. When it's not, the underlying message is the same, not least when the chorus of 'Nehemiah' declares "No self-pity we sing, yeah, yeah, yeah!". That the album was recorded before Jimmi's death doesn't stop the tsunami-sized poignancy.

'The Lost Riots' is proof that hope is more than just a word and by the end, with 'Goodhorsehymn's comforting, penultimate words, you realise Hope Of The States are more about light than dark, more about happiness than misery, and, most importantly, more about life than death.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Definitely Marmite music
If you've read other reviews for this album you'll see a pattern emerging- generally high praise but a few people absolutely hating it. Read more
Published on 21 May 2006 by Jam sandwich

5.0 out of 5 stars Hope for music
I'm a big fan of GYBE and Explosions in the Sky and admit Hope of the States do borrow a lot from what makes these bands extraordinary, however that's not the point. Read more
Published on 28 Jul 2005 by wheeel

4.0 out of 5 stars A gripping cd from start to finish!
This CD has the ability to help you experience every single emotion in 13 amazing songs.

The mysterious start of 'The Black Amnesias' gives the listener no illusion as to what... Read more

Published on 26 Jul 2005 by tradematt

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing
'The Lost Riots' is exceptional and by far the best album of 2004. It is very instrumental and orcherstral; not to mention emotional. Read more
Published on 23 Jul 2005 by Mrs. B. Bastiampillai

4.0 out of 5 stars lost a band member but not a lost cause
its epic. sam seems to get a little moody. there seems to be an american theme all the way through. however, "the lost riots" is a damn good album. Read more
Published on 29 Mar 2005 by And Mrs Toda

5.0 out of 5 stars You'll either love it or not get it
This is no ordinary album. The music and the intent is completely different to your run of the mill releases. Read more
Published on 12 Jan 2005 by benhawkins3

3.0 out of 5 stars Stunning first track.........
To be fair, this is by no means a bad album. But I bought it on the strength of the first track (The Black Amnesias), which I had heard on the radio and had blown me away. Read more
Published on 5 Jan 2005 by rock_muz

1.0 out of 5 stars Awful
Let's be frank. If this 'album' was any good it would be selling. Perhaps more specifically if the singer was any good this album would be selling. Read more
Published on 5 Dec 2004 by tedbacon3

5.0 out of 5 stars Never before in the field of human music
Simply buy this album. Coming on like a combination of Explosions In The Sky amd Spiritualised, this is music like it should be, physically moving, emotionally touching, the only... Read more
Published on 31 Oct 2004 by Mr Iain Maloney

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Thing to come out of UK music since Oasis
I am appalled that the majority of people who have reviewed this album have said it is disappointing. All I can say is that they do not know much about music. Read more
Published on 15 Oct 2004 by J. Hazell

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