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"We've never worked together so hard and so well as a unit," explains Oliver. In the past we've worked separately on the songwriting, practicing in short stints in the rehearsal room. On Hope Is Here they worked intermittently for three months perfecting the pre-production at the Engine Studios, allowing the material to take shape - letting their visions develop and grow. "One of the challenges we set ourselves was that every single note should hit the listener as hard as possible, inescapable," Oliver Nikolas explains. "We feel we've finally reached the next level."

Indeed: with Hope Is Here the guys drag you out of your comfortable world, deep into a forest - to a boy named Aramis drifting through the dark trees, alone, forsaken, outcast, because he's not like other people. That's a summary of the concept - but there's plenty more to come