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When asked to summarize the feelings that went into making his newest album, Soul Whirling Somewhere's sole member, Michael Plaster, summed it up with blunt honesty: "Hope Was is about not letting go, not being able to let go, not wanting to let go --- ever." A surrender to hopelessness and despair wrought by the inability to accept and move on after a relationship is over, this double-CD set explores longing and loss, panic and pain, sadness and self-absorbed misery. Energetic, jagged, uncomfortable acoustics are juxtaposed against serene, motionless electronics, becoming a schizophrenic backdrop and musical metaphor to the forlorn feelings expressed on Hope Was.