Earlier this year, Cambridge emo quintet Lonesome impressed us with a single called ‘Save Your Words’. However, that was only a teaser as they have revealed details of their debut album. ‘In the Hope This Finds You’ will be released on September 29th through their new label home, Easy Life Records (Soft Cult, Normandie, Lonely The Brave).
Described as a “journal of grief, rage, and reluctant hope,” ‘In the Hope This Finds You’ is expected to be emotionally raw and fluid, capturing the band’s often haunting and cinematic tone, anchored in love and loss. Visually and conceptually, the album centres around two characters: the anonymous figure (concealed beneath a red sheet) and the main protagonist. The anonymous figure is said to represent “the personification of deceit”. While the main protagonist is depicted by two symbolic symbols: a blindfold and a crown.
The news also sees a third track from the record be released, ‘You Say It’s Love’. “Following the bruised introspection of ‘Save Your Words’, ’You Say It’s Love’ sharpens the focus – no longer lost in aftermath, but standing face-to-face with the quiet duplicity of love spoken, not shown,” Lonesome explain. “This is not a song of heartbreak, but of exposure. It peels back the veneer of romantic performance, revealing the rot beneath sweet words left unproven. There is a simmering restraint here – a tension that asks, what is love without truth? It’s a confrontation, not a collapse. The bitterness is measured, precise – “bleeding out the bitter heart of you” doesn’t scream; it cuts. In that wound, the track finds its strength: the clarity that comes when illusions finally fall away. In the end, ‘You Say It’s Love’ doesn’t mourn what was lost – it questions whether it was ever there at all.”
Undoubtedly, ‘You Say It’s Love’ is an impassioned and compelling taster of what ‘In the Hope This Finds You’ has to offer. You can view the video below.
Alongside ‘Save Your Words,’ the album will include ‘Liar’.
