| Hope | ||||
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| Studio album by Klaatu | ||||
| Released | September 1977 | |||
| Recorded | June 1976 – June 1977 | |||
| Genre | Progressive rock | |||
| Label | Daffodil, Capitol | |||
| Producer | Terry Brown | |||
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| Allmusic | [1] |
Hope, released in September 1977, is the second album by the Canadian progressive rock group Klaatu. It is a concept album, recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra, about the sole survivor of an arrogant race of beings, who warns space travellers of hazards in the last days of his life.
Many fans and critics consider Hope to be the most creative of the Klaatu albums.
It won a Juno Award for "Best Engineered Album" and a Canadian Music Critics award for "Best Album" in 1977.
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 included 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."
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The album opens with a mouse squeak. Their previous album, 3:47 EST, ends with a mouse squeak.[2]
"Long Live Politzania" concludes with "The Politzanian National Anthem".
The original release credited all songs simply to "Klaatu"; however, subsequent reissues and the band's website provided inidividual song writing credits.[3]
The band members are not named on the original LP.
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. Hope's cover also repeats the mouse motif from 3:47 EST.