Johnny Foreigner - How To Be Hopeful

Johnny Foreigner - How To Be Hopeful 

New album from Johnny Foreigner, a 4-piece indie rock band from the
UK's second city. Feels like a huge privilege to release a loud righteous
rock record about fnding love and joy in the universe at a point where
such things are in such universal short supply

This release is 28 months past deadline; our timing has always sucked. But
honestly we've had little choice; How to be Hopeful is a pure product of chaos
magic. It compelled us to be made, to harness returning ripples of stones long
since thrown. It felt way too signifcant, too personal, too full of moments worth
savouring and patterns playing out, to rush. Also, we are old and have real jobs
now. It's actually 2 matched parallel soundtracks, 1 per side, for a 12 month
period where the worst, then the weirdest, then the best possible things
happened. Same series of events, different ripples, chaos and consequence and
everything connecte It is our celebration record, our fell- in- love- and- stoppedworrying album, the glowing cathartic coda that we couldn't help but channel. The
least Johnny Foreigner of albums; nearly 3 years of obsessive planning and
constructing, executive produced by 2007 anti- nostalgia us, and 2016 us who
stopped being a band when we ran out of things worth singing about.

Between 2007 - 2016 Johnny Foreigner released 5 albums and 7 Eps, starting
with Drowned in Sound's inaugural Pluto Prize winner, culminating with a fnal
album deep dive on Pitchfork. They toured on 4 continents, received a
simultaneous 3/10 and 9/10 for the same record in NME, played every festival
except Glastonbury, became just as notorious for their merch line as their DIY
ethos... and proved their many critics wrong by consistently failing to make a
career out of it.

Tracks: Roisin Does Advice Now / The Blazing
World / What The Alexei / Museum of Useless Things / Orc Damage / Okay 1
More / This is a Joke / Dark Tetris / Their Shining Path / A Sea To Scream At /
Emily and Alex / We Build This City

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