A Band in Hope

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A Band in Hope
Studio album by The Matches
Released	March 18, 2008
Genre	Art punk pop punk
Length	44:13
Label	Epitaph
Producer	Nick Hexum Mike Green Miles Hurwitz John Feldman John Paulsen Paul Ruxton Tim Armstrong
The Matches chronology
Decomposer (2006) A Band in Hope (2008) the Matches album 4, unreleased; graphics? title? or not needed? (2009)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AbsolutePunk	91% link
AbsolutePunk	89% link
AllMusic	[1]
ThePunkSite	[2][unreliable source?]

A Band in Hope (formerly The Mad Silentist) is the third studio album by The Matches and was released in Australia and Europe on March 15, 2008, and in the US on March 18, 2008. Audio production was handled by Tim Armstrong, Mike Green, John Feldmann, Nick Hexum, Miles Hurwitz, John Paulsen and Paul Ruxton.^[3]

Like their previous album Decomposer, A Band in Hope features multiple producers, though fewer this time around. According to frontman Shawn Harris' blog, the album was created in a period of despair due to the record sales of Decomposer. Instead of following up with the sister album titled The Mad Silentist, the band scrapped many of the old songs (only four remain in the final cut) and re-wrote the album. The new album, as Harris states, sways between hope and despair, and the hope one gets when they feel disillusioned and abandoned.^[4]