"Number One album of 2005 - Cheryl Waters KEXP "...breathtaking, soulful psychedelic rock with a dark turbulence at its heart: the two elements tugging at each other until a music that is both disquietingly beautiful and emotionally powerful is all that remains." Stevie Chick, NME Uplifting, soulful, psychedelic rockWelcome to Hopewell, the home of beautiful music. Chris Solmon, TIME OUT LONDON Sublime, stabbing, psychedelia. There are moments of extreme grandiosity, crushing and immense, with billowing crescendos and flattening layers of feedback but they are buffered by a sweet off-kilter romanticism. Hopewell have located the spot where the personal and universal intersect, rendering each moment both introspective and transcendental. April Long, NME "When Hopewell add some hangover-hazy honky-tonk grit to their spacey sprawl (The Notbirds, closer Square Peg Teeth), the results are uniquely out of this world." Grade: B+; Timothy Gunatilaka, Entertainment WeeklyAll you need is one catchy song to nail the rock kids and with Calcutta, Hopewell has it. The songs full of dance-inducing stripped down beats, as well as soul-tipped organs and trumpets. Its from the Brooklyn acts sophomore disc, The Birds of Appetite. With mesmerizing singer Jason Russo at the mike, the band culls the glam-rock sound of Bowie and the croon-wave of the Cure Mary Huhn, New York Post "If you are wondering where the soul of Mercury Rev went, it may just have followed former member Jason Russo after his departure from the legendary unit. Their thick and tasty sound may snare a tonal quality with the grungers, but the band reign with a pop majesty that glitters over the feedback. Package all this with a stage presence that gleamed with rocknroll glory and Hopewell arent the heirs, theyre building the kingdom." Exclaim! Magazine Canada "Music this cinematic and brilliant doesnt come along often, so pay attention and enjoy every note of it. Now go close your eyes and go for a flight with The Birds Of Appetite. Youre in for one hell of a ride" - The Tripwire Spearheaded by Jason Russo, Hopewell play that sweet-dream psych-pop, you know the kind that starts off slow and melodic, then gradually builds to something of epic proportions. Makes you wonder how they get from point A to point B so well while maintaining those high soothing vocals. This band rewards those of us who like to pay attention. - Mike Ayers: VILLAGE VOICE Tripadelic pop mongers Hopewell; their stellar forthcoming, Birds of Appettite, finds the band in top form. VOICE CHOICE -Hopewell's recent recordings with Dave Fridmann sound fresh and dense, with stronger melodies than ever...TIME OUT NEW YORK Hopewell's psychedelic pop is visceral and dynamic, yet unstable - meaning you never know when the noisy bits will suddenly squirm out of a sugary pop cloud that twists itself inside out, and implodes. A band to keep your earholes tuned to for sure. David Sean Bosler -VILLIAGE VOICE