![]() ![]() ![]() An ever-present shadowy enemy seems to straddle the mess, but even when picking through the concrete debris and digging for scraps below the surface, the clues and signs crumble away in your fingers. Ruins and riots and fires and chaos are littered and strewn across the songs. The Lost Riots, like the aforementioned music video, plays on terrifying, portentous imagery throughout. Hope of the States waste no time getting to the point on The Lost Riots, their musical ID4: The opening instrumental "The Black Amnesias" begins with a solitary, maudlin, plucked guitar line and escalates slowly, pausing dramatically here and there until it explodes into an immense epic rock-opera piece, complete with wailing violins and high-diving crescendos. These are summer-blockbuster songs, overdriven and overproduced simply because they can be, with little-to-no actual substance behind the heavy-effects bluescreen. Oh, and Muse, which seems appropriate because Hope of the States make big-budget music mostly in that vein. One of those bands is Hope of the States, who have received rapturous press in the UK, with critics rolling out heavy names as reference points- Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Radiohead, Mogwai, Manic Street Preachers. ![]()
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