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- Summary: The second full-length release for the Scottish indie pop band was produced by MJ of Hookworms.
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- Record Label: Fortuna Pop
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Indie Pop
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| You are not a computer You are complex and undefined So why let yourself be limited to binary desires? To binary identities and binary ideals Like... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Oct 13, 2015This is a confident, vital and highly uplifting record.
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Oct 13, 2015By making an album that succeeds as a meaningful statement and a brilliant pop record at the same time, the Spook School have done the near impossible on Try to Be Hopeful.
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Oct 13, 2015The positivity is never over the top, nor does the pure sincerity exhibited throughout ever feel excessively earnest. It’s this which sets this band apart from their indie-pop contemporaries, and makes Try To Be Hopeful a record which should be revered as a truly important piece of work.
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Oct 13, 2015You might think punk bands berating the patriarchy is uninspired, but The Spook School do so with spirit, vibrancy and clever honesty, demonstrating how candid discussions of gender and sexuality in pop culture is still worryingly subversive.
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Dec 11, 2015Much of Try to Be Hopeful is spent digging into the complexities of self and society with a lens that is simultaneously critical, sensitive, and goofy.
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