Hostage Calm

Hostage Calm begin Please Remain Calm with weaving counter-melodic guitars and bass, stitched together with anthemic choruses. Openers ‘On Both Eyes’, ‘Don’t Die On Me Now’ and ‘Brokenheartland’ take the listener through all of the band’s signature stylings, setting the mood as the album reveals greater depth and dynamism. A slower, more intimate version of the band’s classic ‘The “M” Word‘ features an orchestral arrangement, complete with strings, brass, keys and concert percussion. Immediately following this, the band delivers perhaps its most avant-guarde arrangement, ‘Patriot’; a full a capella ode to a lost love affair with America. What opens as a very electrifying, hit-driven album fully descends into some of the band’s most intricate and moving work to date.But Please Remain Calm is more than Hostage Calm’s opus: it’s their manifesto. Like how London Calling captured the gray and grinding Britain of 1979, this album calls to mind the hopeless college student moving back in with her parents, the bank boarding up the house next door, and the impossibility of love in a time where nothing moves forward. Pushing musical boundaries at every turn, Please Remain Calm never loses its feeling of timelessness.

Session Tracklist
1. Brokenheartland
2. Woke Up Next To A Body
3. On Both Eyes
4. The "M" Word
5. War On A Feeling
6. Don't Die On Me Now

Hometown
Wallingford, CT

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