Hostage Calm’s ‘Please Remain Calm’
Hostage Calm have released a bit of a storming new album in With Guitars little world, titled ‘Please Remain Calm’ we urge you to track down the release or see for yourselves bat a venue near you.
On Tour
with Into It. Over It. and Make Do And Mend
10/17Cleveland,OH@ Now That’s Class
10/18Philadelphia,PA@ First Unitarian
10/19New York City,NY@SantosParty House
10/20Boston,MA@Middle East
10/21Hartford,CT@ Webster Underground
10/22Baltimore,MD@ Ottobar
10/23Richmond,VA@ The Camel
10/24Columbia,SC@ New Brookland Tavern
10/25Orlando,FL@ Will’s Pub
10/26Gainesville,FL@ Fest 11
10/27Gainesville,FL@ Fest 11
10/28Gainesville,FL@ Fest 11
10/29Atlanta,GA@ Vinyl 9
10/30Louisville,KY@ Vernon Club
10/31Chicago,IL@ Beat Kitchen
with Streetlight Manifesto
11/13Portland,OR@ Hawthorne Theatre
11/14Seattle,WA@ Neptune Theatre
11/15Boise,ID(HC Only)
11/16Salt Lake City,UT@ Club Sound
11/17Denver,CO@OgdenTheatre
11/18Omaha,NE(HC Only)
11/19Minneapolis,MN@MillCityNights
11/20Chicago,IL@ House Of Blues
11/21Pontiac,MI@ Clutch Cargo’s
11/23Sayreville,NJ@ Starland Ballroom
11/24Boston,MA@ Royale
11/25New York City,NY@ Best Buy Theatre
11/26Baltimore,MD(HC Only)
11/27Nashville,TN@ Exit In
11/29San Antonio,TX@ White Rabbit
11/30Midland,TX@ Pine Box (HC Only)
12/01Tempe,AZ@ Marquee Theatre
12/02Santa Ana,CA@ The Yost Theatre
12/04San Diego,CA@ House Of Blues
12/05Los Angeles,CA@ The Mayan Theatre
12/06San Francisco,CA@ Slim’s
12/07Sacramento,CA@ Ace of Spades
“This is one of the best records of the year without a doubt, and the best part is it’s for so many different reasons. First and foremost: you will not hear a record like Please Remain Calm this year. Plain and simple, it’s one of a kind. Please Remain Calm hits you in the face with some of the most beautiful harmonies It’s the kind of record you just put on in your car, drive, and get lost in it. Please Remain Calm is a record that is a beautiful portrait of what it is to be a young adult in a post-war society. But more specifically, Hostage Calm has created one of the best albums of 2012. And that is a fact.”
10 out of 10 – www.underthegunreview.net
“…generation-defining… the accumulation of everything Hostage Calm can do better than anyone else today. They’ve maintained their trademark, but created a new, retrospective vision of their sound. They’ve embellished the sophistication of their musicianship without pretentiousness. And most importantly, they’ve become a voice for their fans and taken back the purpose of American hardcore that so many bands have forgotten.”
5 out of 5- www.alterthepress.com
“Hostage Calm stand apart with their new record not just for the way it sounds and the progression they’ve taken, but because it’s some of the cleanest and honest storytelling since The Wonder Years’ Suburbia and its homage to The Weakerthans’ Reconstruction Site before that.”- www.absolutepunk.net
Hostage Calm Bio:
Please Remain Calm is the punk album of the Great Recession. The Connecticut five-piece has crafted an album that captures the defeat, the heartache–what it feels like to be young in the American Decline. Following up 2010’s critically acclaimed self-titled LP, Please Remain Calm combines elements of Springsteen-esque heartland rock with the band’s signature blend of 60s pop melody, 70s punk energy and 80s new wave panache.
Hostage Calm begin Please Remain Calm with weaving counter-melodic guitars and bass, stitched together with anthemic choruses. Openers ‘Shiners’, ‘Don’t Die On Me Now’ and‘Broken heartland’ take the listener through all of the band’s signature stylings, setting the mood as the album reveals greater depth and dynamism. A slower, more intimate version of the band’s classic ‘The“M” Word‘ features an orchestral arrangement, complete with strings, brass, keys and concert percussion. Immediately following this, the band delivers perhaps its most avant-garde arrangement, ‘Patriot’; a full a canella ode to a lost love affair withAmerica. What opens as a very electrifying, hit-driven album fully descends into some of the band’s most intricate and moving work to date.
But Please Remain Calm is more than Hostage Calm’s opus: it’s their manifesto. Like how London Calling captured the gray and grinding Britain of 1979, this album calls to mind the hopeless college student moving back in with her parents, the bank boarding up the house next door, and the impossibility of love in a time where nothing moves forward. Pushing musical boundaries at every turn, Please Remain Calm never loses its feeling of timelessness.