Hope in Anguish

Hope in Anguish Artist: East West
Label: Floodgate Records
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 080688626624
EAN: 0080688626624
ASIN: B00009KU8G


Release Date: 2003-06-10

Hope in Anguish


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Tracks:

  1. Vacant
  2. Dwell
  3. Drink Me
  4. Seven
  5. For Every Wish
  6. Brutally Wrong
  7. Murderer
  8. Envy
  9. Final Say
  10. Zero Hour
  11. Great Fae
  12. Carpe Noctum

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Album Description

Hope In Anguish is the long awaited sophomore studio release from the Dove Award winning East West. Produced by Dennis Mackay (David Bowie, Judas Priest). Floodgate Records. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars COOL! - here are some meanings I get out of the songs..........2006-02-19

I really liked this album, although they could have improved on some of the slow songs here and there. I realy loved East West's first album I must say. Do not misjudge the lyrics though. In the song "Murderer" you may be hearing violent lyrics, but keep in mind it's not "literally" in the view of the singer...but in the view of a "Murderer" which is why it's called "Murderer" and it illustrates the emptiness and perhaps helplessness those type of people sink into. Because Murderers are still people too and I think that song shows an extremely interesting and different point of view of how a Murderer feels so many mixed emotions. An example from the song is near the end they sing "Nothing Breathes inside... Nothing Lives inside..." as the song fades out.

The 1st song "Vacant" is representing an example of a mistake/sin that grows and gets larger and reaps into a result of chaos: "Feed a lie, Watch it birth, Kiss the Dirt"

"Brutally Wrong" is something that's harder for me to interperet however - what sticks out most in the lyrics is "What could you ever gain...?" - "...Brutally Wrong it's all a game."

If your really really really liked their first album, you may also like this one, however you may like their first one better because it's "Pure EastWest Coolness" - but for me there wasn't that much in this album to dissapoint me. I just think for some of the slow songs they could have tweaked them a little better.
But overall it's a good album.

5 out of 5 stars Not quite as classic as TLIGG, but still awesome.......2005-12-13

The Light in Guineveres Garden is one of my favorite metalcore alums of all time. I got this CD because i wanted more of East West; while this CD isn't quite as good as the album TLIGG it still holds it's own and I really enjoy it. It's heavy, downright catchy at times but certainly not main stream or generic. I also love the diversity of East West's albums; The songs range from great melodic lines to growling and the mood of the songs vary just as much. just compare 'brutally wrong' or 'vacant' to 'the final say'and you'll see...

3 out of 5 stars Confused.......2005-07-20

I just got my CD in the mail today and I'm actually not sure what to say. I listened to it all the way through and it's so different from the first. I was expecting in your face screaming, and it's more mellow. Also, I didn't understand the lyrics to most of the songs. They are SO random. I'm not disappointed, I liked a few songs, but it's not my favorite.

1 out of 5 stars Awful.............2005-07-04

East West's "Hope In Anguish" is one of the worst CD's I have heard. Period. I listen to just about everything, but when a band abuses horrible power chords, bad drumming, and the stereotypical 'metal' voice with a bunch of 'dark' cliches, it just makes for bad music. This album just doesn't cut it, and it's enough to make me steer clear of the rest of their stuff.

4 out of 5 stars

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  2. Paradise, Found ~ Fight Paris
  3. 50 Years of the Greatest Hit Singles ~ Various Artists
  4. Bad Channels - Soundtrack ~ Blue Oyster Cult
  5. Sunder Ohne Zugel: Unbridled Sinner ~ In Extremo
  6. Wired for Sound ~ Cliff Richard
  7. Rockin' Mann ~ Carl Mann
  8. The Little Pacific ~ Greater California
  9. Industrial Revolution: Second Edition ~ Various Artists
  10. The Basement Tapes ~ Kasim Sulton

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Far Away Lands ~ Hank Mobley

The Duke's Big Four ~ Duke Ellington Quartet

Out of Gridlock ~ East Down Septet

Good Stitch for Golden Roads ~ Jaco Pastorius

Mariano ~ Charlie Mariano

By Request ~ Kenny Drew Trio

Tunisia & Other African Nations ~ Various Artists

Cigars & Guitars ~ Lars Bo Enselmann, Christian Sievert

Bombarde ~ Andre Lemeut

20 Grandes Exitos ~ Atahualpa Yupanqui