STANLEY SIBANDE - HOPELESS DREAMS

Hopeless Dreams is the debut album from Stanley Sibande, a South African based, Zambian born, solo, Acoustic Singer-Songwriter. He began his journey as a musician in his formative years singing along to popular music with his siblings in the living room of his childhood home as a pass-time. Joining his first band while taking a gap year in 2013, He picked up a guitar and soon after that, started writing his own compositions which are heavily influenced by the likes of Hozier, SYML, Bastille, Linkin Park and Cinematic Orchestra.
His composition style is an amalgamation of the melancholic soundscapes of indie and rock coupled with the simplistic, yet catchy melodic compositions of modern alternative pop, serving as a backdrop for a narrative lyricism style that usually touches on the darker elements of the human condition and his journey through that landscape. His performance style is a homage to the early 2000’s post-grunge/Hard rock scene that combines loud, raspy and melodic vocals with a big rhythm-driven Acoustic guitar sound.

TRACK LIST

1. Run
2. Apocalypse Begins
3. Midnight Song
4. Cuts
5. Mother
6. Lights
7. Hold On
8. Hopeless Dreams
9. Outside
10. Wildfire
11. Lavender Eyes
12. Wilaba Uku Pema