Customer Ratings & Reviews

This is the acoustic version of there disc Cope and it makes you wish they did an acoustic version of all there releases. It's fantastic!!!

Great to hear a totally different take on "Cope." The songs get a new life here, and it's remarkable.

Top notch blew me away on cope, and all over again on hope. Explaining why I love this album would almost ruin the first experience someone would get listening to it themselves but it is worth the buy.

I feel that the description of thus c d on the package was kind of misleading about how the cd really was.

How often does a band release an album, and then shortly after announce that they have reimagined it in a different way for a separate release? That's exactly what Manchester Orchestra has done with their newest release, Hope. After releasing the album Cope in April 2014, the band decided to rewrite each song in a toned-down, acoustic fashion and re-release it under the title Hope. They provide an excellent juxtaposition to each other. Cope is presented in such a way that it seems to explore the darker side of life's trials and tragedies. How sometimes, when the weight of the world is held on your shoulders, all you can do is keep your head down and expend all your effort to simply avoid being crushed into pieces. Hope, on the other hand, suggests that if you look up instead of down, you might see light, and beauty, and just that - hope. Why simply cope with your difficulties when you could hope for the benefits of making it through to the other side? Songs are written and rewritten, mixed and remixed, released and then covered and re-released, all the time. But never before have I been able to experience the two sides of a single composition in such a sublime and fascinating way. Manchester Orchestra knows what they're doing - stick with this one for as long as they keep creating.