A Band in Hope

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A Band in Hope
A Band in Hope cover
Studio album by The Matches
Released March 18, 2008
Genre Art punk, pop punk
Length 44:13
Label Epitaph
Professional reviews
  • The Album Project 4/5 stars link
  • ThePunkSite.com 4.5/5 stars link
The Matches chronology
Decomposer
(2006)		 A Band in Hope
(2008)

A Band in Hope (formerly The Mad Silentist) is the third studio album by The Matches and was released on March 15, 2008 in Australia and Europe and March 18, 2008 in the US. Like their previous album Decomposer, A Band in Hope features multiple producers, though fewer this time around. According to frontman Shawn Harris' blog, the album was created in a period of despair due to the lukewarm reception and record sales of Decomposer. Instead of following up with the sister album titled The Mad Silentist, the band scrapped many of the old songs (only 4 remain in the final cut) and re-wrote the album. The new album, as Harris states, sways between hope and despair, and the hope one gets when they feel disillusioned and abandoned.

The album was leaked on February 11, 2008.

On Tuesday, March 11, The Matches released the entire album on their Myspace page, and were featured on the Myspace front page. The next day the video for the first single "Wake the Sun" was released exclusively on Yahoo! Music. According to Oxen, the video for "Yankee in a Chip Shop" should be out March 2008, though it has recently been stated that the video will not be released for another two months due to the success of "Wake the Sun" and the fact that Shawn is working on the video for "Yankee" while touring.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "AM Tilts" - 3:47 (Nick Hexum)
  2. "Their City" - 4:12 (Mike Green)
  3. "Wake the Sun" - 3:38 (Miles Hurwitz)
  4. "Darkness Rising" - 3:06 (Mike Green)
  5. "To Build a Mountain" - 3:15 (Mike Green)
  6. "We Are One" - 3:02 (Mike Green)
  7. "Point Me Toward the Morning" - 2:52 (John Feldmann)
  8. "From 24C" - 4:25 (John Paulsen THP)
  9. "Clouds Crash" - 2:12 (Paul Ruxton THP)
  10. "Between Halloweens" - 3:57 (Mike Green)
  11. "If I Were You" - 2:44 (Mike Green)
  12. "Future Tense" - 3:09 (Mike Green)
  13. "Yankee in a Chip Shop" - 2:16 (Tim Armstrong)
  14. "Proctor Rd." - 1:11 (Miles Hurwitz)

The Australian release features the bonus track "Here's to Love" and the European release features "My Doe Pt. 1" and a remix of "Yankee in a Chip Shop"