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Thinking Plague - Hoping Against Hope
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||| Artist Name_____> Thinking Plague |||
||| Album Name______> Hoping Against Hope |||
||| Label___________> Cuneiform Records |||
||| Genre___________> Avantgarde |||
||| URL_____________> http://www.cuneiformrecords.com |||
||| Release Date____> 2017-04-05 |||
||| Street Date_____> 2017-02-10 |||
||| Size____________> 253.48mb ||
|| Playtime________> 44:57 ||
|| Encoder_________> FLAC 1.3.1 ||
|| Quality_________> 761 kbps / 44.1khz / 2 channels ||
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| 1 The Echoes of Their Cries 6:37 |
| 2 Thus Have We Made the World 5:44 |
| 3 Commuting to Murder 4:44 |
| 4 Hoping Against Hope 10:06 |
| 5 The Great Leap Backwards 4:01 |
| 6 A Dirge for the Unwitting 13:45 |
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| Clouds scud across a storm-wracked sky, but while briefly exposing |
| rare shards of blue, most often, blacker, gloomier grays lurk |
| behind the mists. |
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| Sometimes a work of art enables us to articulate our thoughts and |
| feelings in times of upheaval and chaos. In an era when the world |
| has seemingly come off its hinges, an album like Hoping Against |
| Hope offers listeners the consolation that they are not alone. But |
| more than that, this intellectually complex work offers tools to |
| help us make sense, affectively at least, of the whole sorry mess. |
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| Thinking Plague is a storied band, whose thirty-five year history |
| has seen it cleave consistently to the extreme limits of what is |
| possible to do within rock music. Much of the music it released |
| has owed more to traditions external to rock, such as folk, |
| chamber music, and particularly, the avant-garde tradition of |
| twentieth-century classical music. |
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| Thinking Plague are often cited as the leading light of the |
| American arm of the æRock In OppositionÆ movement, genre-defying |
| and, above all, unique. |
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| The arrangements we hear on Hoping Against Hope are those we will |
| hear live. Even when singer Elaine di FalcoÆs accordion is written |
| and recorded in multiple voices, the parts are realizable by a |
| single instrument. |
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| Leader and composer Mike Johnson and newest member Bill PohlÆs |
| tightly scored twin guitars are panned out wide enough for the |
| listener to balance the pursuit of an individual voice against the |
| ensemble texture, which is the creative focus, a carefully crafted |
| polyphony served by each instrumental voice. PohlÆs addition |
| brings a second electric guitar to the texture for the first time, |
| enabling more sinuous scoring, rather than making the sound more |
| ærockÆ. |
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| There is a familiar vocabulary in play, a harmonic palette and a |
| phraseology that has evolved considerably over the bandÆs lifespan |
| without extreme points of rupture, despite major changes and |
| sometimes long gaps between releases; this is clearly the same |
| band that we heard in the 1980s, but Johnson is writing from a |
| creative position that is fruitfully removed from that he occupied |
| even four years ago. As demanding as this music may be, it is made |
| to sound easy, and more importantly, beautiful. |
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