| Magnetic North | ||||
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| Studio album by Hopesfall | ||||
| Released | May 15, 2007 | |||
| Genre | Post-hardcore Melodic hardcore |
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| Length | 52:40 | |||
| Label | Trustkill | |||
| Producer | Mike Watts | |||
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Magnetic North is the fourth full-length album released by the hardcore band Hopesfall. Josh Brigham, one of the guitarists and the only founding member remaining during the recording of the album, has said: "Our music has always been spacey and heavy, and we use those roots, combined with our love of grunge-era Smashing Pumpkins, Dinosaur Jr., HUM, and Pixies, we add some bigger, heavier riffs.
"We all admire bands that can morph and change with each album, and that is what we try to do. Expect change and progression, in both songwriting and overall style, on the new album."
During the period before this album's release, the band released a new song from the album on their MySpace page each week for the ten weeks prior to the release date.
"Bird Flu" was previously released on the compilation album "Trustkill Takeover Vol. 2" in an over version
All music written by Hopesfall — all lyrics written by Jay Forrest
The track "The Canon" is an homage to HUM's song "Little Dipper"
In Europe and Japan the bonus track "Saskatchewan", was originally slated to be on all copies of Magnetic North but was cut from releases outside of Europe and Japan without the band consenting. When the band found out the CDs had already been manufactured. Other Bonus tracks may have been planned but were not included.
"We're working on some interesting things still, with bonus tracks and such for the releases in Europe and Japan. We're talking about some re-mixes too. We scrapped a couple of songs on the record, so maybe we'll work on those, too. Be on the lookout."