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Try to Be Hopeful

The Spook School

Try to Be Hopeful

Second album from the Edinburgh-based indie pop act produced by Hookworms’ MJ

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7.7

Label
Fortuna Pop!
UK Release date
09/10/2015
US Release date
09/10/2015
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  1. 8.0 |   Gig Soup

    The Spook School are only just starting to spread their A-grade coursework, and it’s sure to become the talk of the town if they keep following their own rulebook
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  2. 8.0 |   The List

    A breezily cheerful, sometimes dramatic album
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  3. 8.0 |   All Music

    Honest and uplifting
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  4. 8.0 |   The Skinny

    A rallying cry encouraging you to speak up, to be heard, to exist in whichever way you feel most at home
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  5. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    A pulsating manifesto with no opportunities for a breather
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  6. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    The fact is The Spook School have nailed it better than pretty much anyone in recent memory here
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  7. 8.0 |   Clash

    The Spook School give hope to those going through personal crisis, without the need to be dour or earnest in the process
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  8. 7.2 |   Pitchfork

    Much of Try to Be Hopeful is spent digging into the complexities of self and society with a lens that is simultaneously critical, sensitive, and goofy
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