UK peace-punk-influenced hardcore from Malmo, Sweden, firing a litany of political attacks against patriarchy, poverty and consumerism. From these vocal diatribes and tribal patterns, the songs burst into noisy, blasting, full-throttle crust thrash more common to Sweden with high-speed, standard issue
screeched/shouted vocal trade-offs. The circle-logo cover displays heavily stippled skulls, gasmasks, factories, and the wasteland, but the thoughtful lyric explanations mark this as sincerity as opposed to
out-and-out mimicry. Solid.
(KS)

Attackfanzine

One year after being recorded this new and second LP from Project Hopeless sees the light of day and finds its way over to the attackfanzine.net HQ. I've heard many varying comments on their earlier stuff where the negative ones almost exclusively have been about the lack of power due to bad sound quality. I myself have had mixed feelings about this. Sure, the sound was far from as good as it could be, but there were still good songs once you got passed this. But that's the past, and now we're more interested in the present - and with this new LP I doubt that there will be complaints about the sound. This LP shows a completely different band from earlier releases. The sound and songs are so much more powerful and the intensity a lot higher - this is the Project Hopeless I've always new existed and wanted to hear.
The songs are much more worked through this time and where Steve, the English representative in this otherwise Swedish band, are more involved as a steady member through the whole process of making the LP this time. Besides doing the spoken word he once joined the band to do he's also taking care of some vocals duties on this one, as are the other three members. Not all four are involved equally as much in the vocals, but they all contribute and as a fan of multiple singers I can't do anything but enjoy.
They've always had the speed but as I mentioned earlier this is a lot harder and angrier than previous stuff and Project Hopeless are attacking with full force this time. They're still influenced by the 80's hardcore, but have (without going all down tuned and melodic) updated their music for the 21st century. Project Hopeless deliver raw, fast, loud, and political hardcore punk that draw inspiration from both countries the members originate from - how can it go wrong? [Krogh - July 6, 2007]

Profane Existence web

From start to finish this LP left me standing stunned and with my jaw hanging open in pure hardcore bliss! This is the second LP from this Mälmo, Sweden based band and is the culimnation of what all those earlier releases were building too. What we have here is ten extremely pissed off and raging hardcore songs, with both classic d-beat and crust influences, and multiple screaming vocalists. Some of the tribal parts and the heavily accented English parts give this a real classic 80's anarchopunk /crust feel of such bands as GENERIC, SEDITION, A.O.A., OI POLLOI etc. The recording is absoluitely perfect for the music - with a totally raw and analog sound that lets you hear every part without sending fake or overproduced (like early OI POLLOI or the NAUSEA LP). Lyrically this is poltiical as fuck, with lengthy, anger-filled songs written in both Swedish and English. All of the packaging is classic pen and ink work by Steve from VISIONS OF WAR, giving it the appropriately crusty packaging. This record rips hardcore and you would be a total fool to pass it up! Enjoy with a bottle or three of fine wine.

Folkzine

The last Project Hopeless record was a bit of a disappointment with a very bad sound production, but as soon as I put this new album in my stereo, it was pure bliss and I rejoiced. The sound has been corrected and the snare drum has a nice tune to it! This is more the Project Hopeless I know and the sound treats them well. With their A//E political, d-beat flavoured raw punk and characteristic high and low pitched vocals, they bring us a whole new LP with 10 tracks with the purest form of Project Hopeless. They still vary their songs in both Swedish and English, and this time Steve has got a permanent place in the band and does vocals/spoken word parts throughout the whole record. It’s nicely infused with the music and adds greatly to the musical experience. On track six there's a spine chilling instrumental intro which is a true delight for all of us who get our kicks from instrumental pieces. The band shows proof of a big development since the last record and as stated before, the sound is a lot more improved this time. All this together with a killer cover by Steve (from Visions of War) this makes for an excellent release by Project Hopeless! / Andreas [Folkzine]