Hope Of The States Aren’t Preaching

While the themes behind the music of Hope of the States are, by their own admission, of utmost importance, frontman Sam Herlihy is careful to point out that he is not intending to come across as yet another didactic, self-obsessed artisan. “I’m not preaching to anybody, I really haven’t got a clue, I’m a drunken fool in a band,” he tells Australia’s Beat magazine. “It’s great to go and talk to people about stuff, meeting people at shows and in different, it’s far more interesting and far more valid than some guy in a band pointing at people.”