Hope have returned with their new single “Osmosis.” The track arrives with the announcement of their Depeche Mode tour support on the European leg of their Memento Mori tour.

The Berlin-based four-piece – made up of lead singer Christine Börsch-Supan, guitarist Phillip Staffa, keyboarder Martin Knorz and drummer Fabian Hönes new single, will satisfy many, with their nod to Massive Attack, Billie Holiday and Joy Division.

The video for “Osmosis” is a collaboration with the British artist and underwater cinematographer Emma Critchley, whose images form the artwork and all videos to the album. Shot on Barbados, we visit an underwater cave, a place of solitude and life evolving by itself. Endless patterns, vast colours and a force, older and bigger than the human one, is present, offering space for contemplation, solace, the affirmation and celebration of life.

The new musical direction of the band has to do with an inner development of singer Christine. Where there used to be anger and violence, now there is something like calm. Instead of monumentality there is meditation. While their self-titled debut Hope, released in 2017, spoke of compulsion, suppressed feelings and violence in its unique, dark and dystopian sound language, this new music tells a story of healing.

Christine, on whose emotional world the band’s lyrics are based – and thus the band’s emotional sound space – has freed herself from an eating disorder in recent years and with it from the great anger, the accusativeness and revolt which long hallmarked the music of Hope. With NAVEL, the band has now created a kind of zen garden. An open, airy space, reduced to the maximum, and inviting the listener to wander through, at the same time not imposing itself – and not forcing an interpretation.

Speaking of “Osmosis”, Christine says, “The song tells a personal story of conception and the struggles and obstacles of coming into life. At the same time it reflects on life evolving by itself, finding freedom and celebration in that.”

As with the previous album, the four musicians, who met and founded the band in 2009 while studying jazz, worked with producer Olaf Opal (The Notwist), who significantly laid down the ultra-compact, hypnotic, and radically minimalist sound. The quietness, the restraint, were actually the greatest exercise in vulnerability: “We asked ourselves who we are, when we’re not so loud anymore,” says Phillip. “Will we still be heard?”.

They were heard. After sharing the stage with IDLES, Algiers and Madrugada, the band are on their way to become a timeless classic: they have been given credit by Portishead singer Beth Gibbons, collaborated with Bauhaus, and most recently hand-picked by Depeche Mode. The only answer to society in its present state can be the most radical, most immediate, and most liberated art.

With performances at Eurosonic Noorderslaag, Reeperbahn Festival, Liverpool Soundcity and SXSW under their belt, and tour dates throughout Europe and the UK, Hope have been widely celebrated as the new, avant-garde pop miracle. With the imminent arrival of their second album, the band has matured, calmed.

Hope 2023 Tour Dates

Supporting Depeche Mode, MementoMori Tour:

28.7. Budapest, HU, Puskas Arena
30.7. Prague, CZ, Letnany Airport
2.8. Warsaw, PL, PGE Narodowy
4.8. Krakow, PL, Tauron Arena
6.8. Talinn, ES, Talinna Laulaväljak
8.8. Helsinki, FL, Kaisaniemen Puisto
11.8. Oslo, NO, Telenor Arena

Order “Osmosis” by Hope HERE