A Band in Hope
Studio album by
The Matches
ReleasedMarch 18, 2008
Genre
Length44:13
LabelEpitaph
Producer
The Matches chronology
Decomposer
(2006)		 A Band in Hope
(2008)		 the Matches album 4, unreleased; graphics? title? or not needed?
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AbsolutePunk91% link
AbsolutePunk89% link
AllMusic[1]
ThePunkSite[2]

A Band in Hope (formerly The Mad Silentist) is the third studio album by The Matches and was released in Australia and Europe on March 15, 2008, and in the US on March 18, 2008. Audio production was handled by Tim Armstrong, Mike Green, John Feldmann, Nick Hexum, Miles Hurwitz, John Paulsen and Paul Ruxton.[3]

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 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 four 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.[4]

Release information

On March 11, 2008, 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. The video for "Yankee in a Chip Shop" was supposed to debut on MySpace Music on August 29, 2008. However, due to issues with the London Metropolitan Police that singer/guitarist Shawn Harris detailed in a blog post, including police that Harris were "rent-a-cops" who took the band members' names and had CCTV tapes of the band "running down the middle of the huge roundabout at Piccadilly Circus that was the video's finale", the video was removed shortly after its posting. (The issue was later resolved and the video released.)[5]

Track listing

No.TitleProducerLength
1."AM Tilts"Nick Hexum3:47
2."Their City"Mike Green4:12
3."Wake the Sun"Miles Hurwitz3:38
4."Darkness Rising"Mike Green3:06
5."To Build a Mountain"Mike Green3:15
6."We Are One"Mike Green3:02
7."Point Me Toward the Morning"John Feldmann2:52
8."From 24C"John Paulsen4:25
9."Clouds Crash"Paul Ruxton2:12
10."Between Halloweens"Mike Green3:57
11."If I Were You"Mike Green2:44
12."Future Tense"Mike Green3:09
13."Yankee in a Chip Shop"Tim Armstrong2:16
14."Proctor Rd."Miles Hurwitz1:11
Australia/Japan bonus track
No.TitleLength
15."Here's to Love"3:00
UK / European bonus tracks
No.TitleProducerLength
15."Yankee in a Chip Shop" (P.O.S. Remix)Tim Armstrong / remix Stefon Leron Alexander (P.O.S.)2:15
16."My Doe, Part One" (featuring Simon Neil of Biffy Clyro)John Paulsen3:32

Charts

Chart performance for A Band in Hope
Chart (2008) Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA)[6] 99
US Billboard 200[7] 179
US Independent Albums (Billboard)[8] 24

References

  1. ↑ Mason, Stewart. "A Band in Hope – The Matches | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved March 8, 2021.
  2. ↑ Gorman, Bobby (3 March 2013). "The Matches – A Band In Hope". ThePunkSite. Retrieved March 8, 2021.
  3. ↑ A Band in Hope (CD liner notes). The Matches. Los Angeles: Epitaph Records. 2008. 86938-2.
  4. ↑ Harris, Shawn (September 28, 2007). "The Matches Update". Allschools.de. Retrieved March 3, 2021.
  5. ↑ "The Matches post new video and rant". Kill Your Stereo. September 1, 2008. Retrieved March 3, 2021.
  6. ↑ "ARIA Report: Week Commencing 24 March 2008" (PDF) (943). Australian Recording Industry Association. Australian Web Archive. March 24, 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-04-19. Retrieved June 20, 2016. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. ↑ "The Matches Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved June 20, 2016.
  8. ↑ "The Matches Chart History (Independent Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved June 20, 2016.
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