Hopesfall's Riffs Hug Your Heart In The Pit
After a decade, the Charlotte post-hardcore band is back with Arbiter and its thoughtful fusion of Hum-inspired space-rock and metallic textures.
by Lars Gotrich
Aug 09, 2018
1 minute
Hopesfall was from Charlotte, but played the Atlanta suburbs where I grew up so often it might as well have been a local band. In the late, Beloved and bands lost to memory in church basements and all-ages spaces. But with its thoughtful fusion of Hum-inspired space-rock and metallic textures, Hopesfall was always meant to break out of those basements. Its music was twinkly-yet-brutal crying-while-moshing hardcore before that kind of heart-on-sleeve emotion really had any place in the pit.
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