Hope Of The States

Hope Of The States are a British rock band who formed in Chichester in 2000. They made music that swayed majestically from slow-building post-rock maximalism to spiky, erudite anthems to sweeping orchestral ballads, sometimes all in the same song. Their live shows were immersive captivating spectacles of military drumming, flickering live projections, a triple guitar assault and a violin switching between rollicking jigs and weeping country laments.

They regrouped and in June 2006 released a second album, Left, that melded The Lost Riots’ epic expanse with propulsive rock bangers and poignant singalongs.

But, mentally exhausted and disillusioned, they split up just a few months after Left hit the shelves, closing the curtain on the band with a ragged and defiant final show at Reading Festival that summer.

In 2024 the band announced they had reunited, revealing a handful of live shows.