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Hope & Sorrow
Electronic · 2007 · 15 tracks

Hope & Sorrow

Wax Tailor

Dusty vinyl crackle, mournful cello, and mid-century film dialogue woven into a noir-tinged tapestry of cinematic trip-hop and sophisticated downtempo beats.

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It's like a 1940s detective movie turned into a hip-hop instrumental set in a rainy French cafe.

A sophisticated, sepia-toned exploration of memory and urban solitude.

Hope & Sorrow · vs · Wax Tailor
Low Energy-0.7σ

It runs a touch cooler and more held-back than this artist's baseline.

Tracklist · 15 Tracks
01
Once Upon a Past
4:47
02
The Way We Lived
3:42
03
The Games You Play
4:13
04
The Tune
2:58
05
The Man With No Soul
3:34
06
Radio Broadcast
0:55
07
Positively Inclined
3:40
08
Sometimes
3:40
09
House of Wax
2:58
10
Beyond Words
1:05
11
To Dry Up
4:04
12
We Be
5:09
13
That Case
0:30
14
There Is Danger
3:31
15
Alien in My Belly
3:44
Moments Worth Waiting For
The seamless transition from the haunting cello opening into the crisp boom-bap breakbeat of the first track.
The way the cinematic dialogue samples on track 5 act as a lead vocal, telling a story of loss over a mournful flute.
The sudden injection of energy and jazz-inflected brass during the mid-album shift of Positively Inclined.
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