Lost Riots [Import]

Product Description
The new Radiohead - not quite, but Hope Of The States have gone one better than Muse, Elbow & Coldplay by producing an album of epic majesty & songs that matches 'OK Computer' & makes 'Kid A' look like the over-indulgent meanderings of six form poetry students. 'The Lost Riots' is seeped in darkness - not least due to the unexpected suicide of guitarist Jimmi Lawrence - but never wallows in self pity. Produced by Sigur Ros' Ken Thomas it manages to sound troubled & lonely whilst retaining a hopeful glint that lifts the songs from the mire of miserableness that threaten to destroy. The three singles 'Enemies/Friends', 'Black Dollar Bills' & 'The Red, The White, The Black, The Blue' all feature & all dazzle but don't tell the whole story. Songs (and possible singles) like 'The Black Amnesias' & 'George Washington' have room to flex their impressive tune muscles whilst the sweeping 'Sadness On My Back', the punchy, US underground-influenced 'Nehemiah' & the fantastic '66 Sleepers To Summer' are other highlights. Hope Of The States have come up with a contender for album of the year in 'The Lost Riots'. The band have emerged from the spectre of tragedy to realize their potential & create some of the most impressive sounds in music today. A confident & compelling debut. Sony. 2004.

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Average customer rating: "I've got so much dead in me." This album scares me Dud ! Very interesting... what is it? Lost Riots gives music hope

The Lost Riots Hope of the States Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Britain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Left Breathe Mercury Between the Senses Set Yourself on Fire ASIN: B00049QLWI Release Date: 2004-10-05

Tracks:

1. The Black Amnesias
2. Enemies/Friends
3. 66 Sleepers To Summer
4. Don't Go To Pieces
5. The 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. Nahemiah
11. Goodhorsehymn
12. 1776

Customer Reviews:

"I've got so much dead in me.".......2006-05-14

i am thinking this cd is right up there with my all time 10 best. i am sure to reconsider this with time as not much can boot ok computer or loveless or spleen and ideal off my chart....but still....RIGHT NOW...it is #10.

i read below before i bought that this is "relentless" music. i agree. i found 2 subpar songs on here. the rest are masterpieces. this music will endure, and never be repeated just so. buy it if you like musical depth, some eclectic sounds, and real musicianship in your postnewwavepunkindiepoppianoepictunes.

This album scares me.......2006-04-12

The mood on this album is relentless. "Beautiful" doesn't do it justice...

I am actually *scared* of listening to this album now, such is the emotional response that it produces. The only other thing I'm scared of listening to in my collection is Mozart's Reqiem...

Dud !.......2005-04-02

when you listen to dreck like this,you realize how great MUSE is.
no wonder the guitar player killed himself !

Very interesting... what is it?.......2005-02-07

I have seen Hope of The States play live a few times. They are very dramatic and passionate. They have a visual show and seem like they are doing serious music. I look at their album art and there is a lot of references to the body. Many songs are political with titles like "George Washington" and "Black Dollar Bills" and "1776." I am not really sure what they are up to. Musically they sound like many bands I have seen like Gomez and Travis. Those bands are slightly more humorous though. Once you get to some of the middle songs like "Don't Go To Pieces" and "The Red The White The Black The Blue" it's obvious why people like them. They are excellent at creating atmosphere and Samuel Herlihy is talented at ballads. I am not sure that they are as good as Radiohead and Badly Drawn Boy, but this may be a band that we have to have a few albums out to truly judge them. This record is a promise. It is a moving statement.

Lost Riots gives music hope.......2004-12-11

Hopes of the State is neither the first or the last to boast long, sweeping, epic instrumentals on a rock album. That line sounds like it should describe a three and a half hour hollywood epic.

However, Lost Riots is anything but Hollywood. The band is reminiscent of soaring sunset guitar compositions accompanied by lots of snares. If you have listened to the band Explosions in the Sky, then this might all seem familiar.

Hope of the States adds a full orchestra of violens, synths, pianos, and lyrics to the percussion and the guitars. The result is brilliant. Although vocals aren't as strong, they don't need to be with the lyrics meaning so much in today's America.

The opening instrumental is as close to a masterpiece as it gets. And these days, masterpiece is usually not spoken when it comes to music. The rest of the album continues with lyrics and long, enduring instrumentals that inspire in some unexplained way that lyrics can't touch.

I must say that the only way I found out about this album is at this website (amazon.com). I heard no hype, no nothing, just the samples here. So I really kept no expectations in mind. I didn't plan on a five star rating, but Lost Riots is such an admiration that I really can't go any lower.

But like most albums believed to be great, there are listeners out there who will dislike this orchestra of rock. All are entitled to their opinions and their own sounds.

Average customer rating:

The Lost Riots Hope of the States Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Britain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00027LEDI Release Date: 2004-01-01

Tracks:

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

Album Description

The new Radiohead - not quite, but Hope Of The States have gone one better than Muse, Elbow & Coldplay by producing an album of epic majesty & songs that matches 'OK Computer' & makes 'Kid A' look like the over-indulgent meanderings of six form poetry students. 'The Lost Riots' is seeped in darkness - not least due to the unexpected suicide of guitarist Jimmi Lawrence - but never wallows in self pity. Produced by Sigur Ros' Ken Thomas it manages to sound troubled & lonely whilst retaining a hopeful glint that lifts the songs from the mire of miserableness that threaten to destroy. The three singles 'Enemies/Friends', 'Black Dollar Bills' & 'The Red, The White, The Black, The Blue' all feature & all dazzle but don't tell the whole story. Songs (and possible singles) like 'The Black Amnesias' & 'George Washington' have room to flex their impressive tune muscles whilst the sweeping 'Sadness On My Back', the punchy, US underground-influenced 'Nehemiah' & the fantastic '66 Sleepers To Summer' are other highlights. Hope Of The States have come up with a contender for album of the year in 'The Lost Riots'. The band have emerged from the spectre of tragedy to realize their potential & create some of the most impressive sounds in music today. A confident & compelling debut. Sony. 2004.

Average customer rating: Hope Of The States. The Lost Riots discovered. Density is the key

The Lost Riots Hope of the States Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Britain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B0002ADWCG Release Date: 2004-06-21

Tracks:

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

Album Details

The Limited CD is in a Cardboard Sleeve with Different Artwork. The Debut Album from Chichester, UK Band, Hope of the States. "Classic Debut Album...expansive, Cinematic and Full of Majesty, It's Breathtaking" Says Nme. "Vast and Powerful, Wild and Beautiful, It's a Pacific Ocean of an Album, and Certainly the Most Impressively Ambitious Debut of the Year" Says the Independent. "Majestic, Bombastic...we Haven't Had a Band with Such Missionary Zeal and Vaulting Ambition Since the Verve Split Up. Worth a Hope Indeed" Says the Times of London.

Customer Reviews:

Hope Of The States. The Lost Riots discovered........2004-09-27

Hope Of The States seems to be jumping on, or rather influenced by, this recent wave of thumping post-punk garage-rock-type bands, although more darker and cinematic sounding. 'Lost Riots' opens with the stunning 'The Black Amnesias', an interesting blend of Godspeed You Black Emperor's orchestral rock and post-punk guitars. The rest of the CD maintains a dreamy, dense, spikey sound, The Rapture-esque rhythms and riffs, and experimental/orchestral noodling falling somewhere in between Broken Social Scene and Godspeed You Black Emperor. As if there are not enough twists, thrown into the post-punk meets orchestral rock mix are Raine Maida-type vocals, almost bordering on pop-punk-type vocals. 'Lost Riots' could be described as The Rapture meets Muse, grandiose as it is edgey, sonic as it is ominous.

Density is the key.......2004-09-09

The tension and darkness of Hope of the States is evident even to the blind, but in Lost riots they manage to surpass the hole from which grunge bands never wanted to get out, and turn it into a masterpiece. Truly. This is the record that you must buy if you want to remember the present year for something good. Opening "Blackening amnesias" sends an immediate chill down the spine, and it won't let you go until you have finished devouring every track. "The red the white the black the blue" is probably the poppiest song along with "Nehemiah", but where they shine is on those miserable odes craving for supreme redemption ("Black dollar bills" and "Goodhorsehymn" for instance). If we have learned something after listening to Lost riots is that there is hope, even when the voice is too fragil to impulse the feeling, or when the world denies you. Absolutely brilliant.

Average customer rating:

Lost Riots ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0002J547I Release Date: 2004-09-07

Average customer rating:

The Lost Riots Hope of the States Manufacturer: Sbme Import ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Britain | British Isles | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0002O09O6 Release Date: 2004-08-23

Tracks:

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

Album Details

The Debut Album from Chichester, UK Band, Hope of the States. "Classic Debut Album...expansive, Cinematic and Full of Majesty, It's Breathtaking" Says Nme. "Vast and Powerful, Wild and Beautiful, It's a Pacific Ocean of an Album, and Certainly the Most Impressively Ambitious Debut of the Year" Says the Independent. "Majestic, Bombastic...we Haven't Had a Band with Such Missionary Zeal and Vaulting Ambition Since the Verve Split Up. Worth a Hope Indeed" Says the Times of London.

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