Watch Hope Of The States’ video for epic comeback single ‘Long Waits In A & E’

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Hope Of The States have made their return with the sprawling ‘Long Waits In A&E’ – their first new song since 2006. See the video first exclusively on NME below.The ’00s Chichester post-rock veterans revealed that they’d be returning to the studio and the stage earlier this summer, and have now shared the 11-and-half-minute ‘Long Waits In A&E’ – an emotional art-rock slow-burner that travels from Ennio Morricone to Godspeed You!

Black Emperor and back again, after frontman Sam Herlihy sets the scene of a world of “acts of random violence by train line wire fences“.The track comes accompanied by a video made by director Ed Emmerson, formerly of regular visual collaborators Type2Error.“It’s more than 15 years since I last made a music video, so I was coming at it from a bit of a standing start,” said Emmerson, “but since HOTS split and I gave up music videos to move into the world of documentary graphics, I’ve remained close friends with Sam so it was good to knock out some ideas with him once he ran me through the themes of the track – and then quietly let me know it was over 11 minutes long!“Aesthetically it’s a real mix – birds of prey, pylons, a bunch of test footage from a film Sam never finished called The Astronaut, hurricanes, forest fires, radars, satellites, and the existential dread of deep space – all historically very Hope Of The States.”He went on: “An intelligent writer could say it’s a music video exploring themes of survival, resilience, and the search for meaning in an increasingly tumultuous world, an exploration of humanity’s struggle against the backdrop of a vast, indifferent universe culminating in a convergence of visceral visuals; inviting viewers to contemplate their place in a world where beauty.