Hope (Klaatu album)

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Hope is the second album by the Canadian rock band Klaatu and their first concept album. Released in September 1977, it won a Juno Award for "Best Engineered Album" and a Canadian Music Critics award for "Best Album" that same year. The album follows the loose concept of space travelers visiting a distant planet.<ref name=Billboard>Template:Cite magazine</ref>

An alternate version of Hope was released in 2005 as part of the group's Sun Set collection of rarities. The alternate version on Sun Set includes the complete contributions of the London Symphony Orchestra, which had largely been removed from the version released in 1977. The alternate version also includes a short unreleased track, "Epilogue," which had originally been intended to be placed between "So Said the Lighthouse Keeper" and "Hope". The lyrics to "Epilogue" were printed on the inner sleeve for Hope despite the song being omitted from the album.

Hope was remastered and re-issued in 2012 by the band's members, and was released on the band's independent record label Klaatunes.

Musical style

A reviewer for Julian Cope's Head Heritage described Hope as “an elaborate sci-fi prog opera,<ref name=cope>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> while an article in the Edmonton Journal described a “whimsical space-rock album”.<ref name=EJ>Template:Cite news</ref> Allmusic's Mike DeGagne commented that the album was "less pop-infused" than the group's previous album 3:47 EST, and contained more "progressive depth" with an "experimental sound".<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Peter Kurtz of the website felt that the album's conceptual rock opera theme sounded "pretentious, and in some cases like a rip-off of Queen".<ref name=allmusic2>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Billboard described the songs as ranging from "fun light pop" similar to 10cc, to "theatrical melodramas" similar to Queen, and to well-orchestrated ballads similar to the Moody Blues.<ref name=Billboard/>

PopMatters described the song “Around the Universe in 80 Days” as a “powerful pop ballad” with a “gorgeous piano melody”, and a “fine example of effortless pop-rock craftsmanship”. It described “Prelude” as “an instrumental rock epic”.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Artwork

Like the previous Klaatu album, the cover was painted by graphic artist Ted Jones. The cover shows "the Lighthouse Keeper's beam". The ruined stone plaza features the sun image from the cover of the previous Klaatu album.

Track listing

Side one

Side two

The original release credited all songs simply to "Klaatu"; however, subsequent reissues and the band's website provided individual song writing credits.

Personnel

Klaatu

• Dee Long - vocals, piano, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, organ, clavinet, bass guitar, synthesizer, mandolin, slide guitar, harmonica, electric sitar
• John Woloschuk - vocals, bass guitar, Fender Rhodes piano, autoharp, acoustic guitar, piano, organ, Polymoog synthesizer, harmonium, electric piano, pianet
• Terry Draper - drums, tambourine, triangle, percussion, whistle

Additional

• London Symphony Orchestra

Production

• Arranged and produced by Klaatu and Terry Brown
• Recorded and engineered by Terry Brown

The band members are not named on the original LP.

Charts

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Chart (1977–78)	Peak position

External links

• "Hope" at discogs