The word HOPE faded into view as a low bass hum emerged over the loudspeaker, announcing the imminent arrival of the band on stage... that one word flickered in and out on a piece of looping celluloid as the band began to shape the droning sound into something specific.
If hope is a discipline, as longtime abolitionist Mariame Kaba has taught us, then 'Hope Drone' is a persistent exercise in renewing faith in a better world - the Sisyphean act of inching the boulder upwards, only to watch it fall into an abyss of violence that seems to expand each day.
The band's eighth album... asks us not to look away. While the band has never been subtle about their left-wing politics...the lack of overt messages on the songs themselves can sometimes push these conversations from view.
Just four months into the genocide, the band would mark the nearly 30,000 dead, a number that keeps growing.
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