Hopewell are delicate & visceral, sublime & stabbing, crushing & romantic, immense & fragile. With their new album 'Beautiful Targets' coming out in the summer of 2007 on Tee Pee Records, Hopewell have come to fully recognize, embrace and explore this tension to mature and stunning conclusion. Their latest offering, produced by Bill Racine (Rogue Wave, Mates Of State) and recorded in the band‚Äö?Ñ?¥s beloved upstate New York wilderness in 2006, showcases a band at the height of their creativity. When lead singer/guitarist Jason Russo was 19 years old he found himself traversing the world with the now legendary Mercury Rev. Following the tours for Rev's breakthrough record 'Deserters Songs', he followed his heart to develop his own voice and Hopewell was born. Since then, they‚Äö?Ñ?¥ve enjoyed rave reviews in national press and crisscrossed the country playing to increasingly larger audiences. Hopewell‚Äö?Ñ?¥s devastating live shows ‚Äö?Ñ?¨ unveiling a performance that supplements rock instrumentation with additional percussion, orchestral arrangements and bellowing horns ‚Äö?Ñ?¨ have left packed houses clamoring for more and drawn drop-jawed reviews from the most stoic of journalists. They have performed internationally with British Sea Power, Elefant, the Sleepy Jackson, the Comas, Mike Watt, the Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Black Angels.