The Curved Glass

Infobox Album | Name = The Curved Glass
Type = Album
Artist = Hopewell
Released = 2001
Genre = Indie Rock
Label = Priápus
Producer = Max Lichtenstein
This album = "The Curved Glass"
(2001)
Next album = "Hopewell & The Birds of Appetite"
(2005)

"The Curved Glass", an album by Hopewell, is a collection of spacey pop songs consisting of complex layers of instrumentation intermixed with bloops and bleeps. This makes sense, as the band shares members with Mercury Rev, among others. These are compositions of swirling sound collages from another planet. Each song has about eight or nine layers of music and sound effects filling your ears simultaneously. Occasional moments of Friends of Dean Martinez occur as well. The vocals are usually as affected as your standard Radiohead album, but without Thom Yorke's pained voice. The last sound heard on the record is a faint whooshing, like a recording from a distant rocket ship taking them back into orbit.

"The Curved Glass" is catalog #'s 19 and 13713.

Track listing

# "The Angel Is My Watermark" – 4:02
# "In the Small Places" – 2:28
# "There Is Something" – 3:02
# "There Is Nothing" – 3:38
# "Christmas Now" – 4:45
# "Moonman" – 3:03
# "Safe as Milk" – 6:04
# "Lazy Day" – 4:57
# "Watermark (Reprise)" – 5:11
# "The Fish" – 4:11