Streaming: Hope is Noise – Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
Posted on 22nd Feb 12 by Mike McGrath Bryan | 
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“…This is set to be a major release for the four-piece, who have genuinely gone and earned their current fanbase through years of quality gigs and incessantly awesome material…”
It’s not often we make a big hoo-hah out of a band releasing something. Most of the time we try and maintain some sort of authoritative voice and hope it comes off as such.
But we can barely contain our excitement at the news that Cork post-hardcore vets Hope is Noise are set to release their new album, This Used To Be A Laugh, this time next month, and with a launch show at Fredz spanning two days, over Paddy’s Weekend, no less.
This is set to be a major release for the four-piece, who have genuinely gone and earned their current fanbase through years of quality gigs and incessantly awesome material, not least for its release through Wingnut Records, the Doneraile/Galway indie record entrepeneur’s new label, on vinyl, as well as a major CD campaign through Cork indie FIFA. And on a personal note, having heard the record, I genuinely hope this brings them the attention and ears they so richly deserve, because they have earned them, as any of their fans will testify to.
The new album takes on a heavier direction, veering away from the pop elements of previous releases, and towards more distorted, post-punk territory, as single Let Sleeping Dogs Lie attests to, and it suits their more hardcore tendencies down to the ground.
Enough of our fanboy ravings – the single is available for streaming at their Bandcamp and in the widget below.
The video for Sleeping Dogs will premiere here shortly before the release of the album on March 16th. Press release after the link.
Irish independent record labels, FIFA Records / Wing Nut Records, are delighted to announce that they have signed a deal with another fantastic Irish act, Hope Is Noise and will join forces to release the bands new album ‘This Used To Be a Laugh’ on March 16th.
FIFA Records are already responsible for launching electro pop punksters, Fight Like Apes, onto an unsuspecting world and is also the home of indie legends the Frank & Walters. Hope Is Noise join recent FIFA Records signees Dead School, Slow Motion Heroes and Zombie Computer on a roster that now includes some of the most talented alternative bands in the country.
Label founder Ashley Keating says, “We’re thrilled to be involved with a band like Hope Is Noise, you just need to look at the bands previous releases and you can see they have something very special indeed”
This Used to be a Laugh is a step forward for Hope is Noise: though the immediacy and dedication to a pristine pop hook showcased in their previous albums remains, it’s invested with a purposeful rawness and urgency that has always boiled underneath. It’s a heady, obfuscating experience, one that adds another dimension to their already impressive arsenal of tunes. Broadsides like the distortion-laden Das Ich and strident single Sleeping Dogs are given to this new attitude, while even a seemingly innocuous pop song like Official Party Line is invested with an altogether darker, more relevant undercurrent. And while Hope is Noise trademarks litter tunes like All Love and Nothing and Spinnst Du, an exploratory spirit permeates Altitude Sickness, the band’s first instrumental, a pensive number, its building tension heightened by ticking electronics.
This is the restless sound of a band with a new-found sense of purpose, unwilling to settle and be pigeonholed. A band born of long-standing friendship, whose disparate elements are brought together by a passion for creation and performance regardless of broader trends and fads. This is Hope is Noise.
This Used to be a Laugh is available from March 16th on FIFA Records & Wingnut Records.
Tags: hope is noise, This Used to be a Laugh
[...] raved last week about the new Hope is Noise album, and quite rightly. New single Let Sleeping Dogs Lie streamed on the site last week and the taster has left a lot of people wanting more in advance of the album’s [...]