Title: Wow - still resonating in my skull.
Review: The grinding, echoing space that Hopewell carves out on this album is like a giddy isolation tank, and the sound deserves high volume or a good set of headphones. The Hopewell experience reminds me most of the crushing joyful feeback accomplishments of the traditional heavies, like Velvet Underground, as well as the masters of more recent noisy neo-psychedelia, including the Flaming Lips, rather than of the lighter Merry-Go-Round or Beatles production style of bands like Kula Shaker. This stuff actually vibrates its way into your head.For those who started with the later work of "Hopewell & the Birds of Appetite," as I did, you will find the vocals heavily buried under the roiling harmonic noise. For me: a very good thing, though others may prefer the more lyrical sound of the later work. This album has replaced everything else in my CD changer for the moment.
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