grave concerns E-zine – Review
I first heard Jennifer Hope on the 1998 Cleopatra compilation “The Unquiet Grave”.  Since then, she’s released two EPs through Mystic Dreams Music and contributed to several tribute albums.  (These are available to hear and buy through her website.)  Her voice has the same plaintive, modest style now as it did when CDs were the norm, and her alto has strengthened.

Her website features the singles listed above the photo.  The cover of U2′s “With or Without You” is charming folk-pop, with subdued instruments and nice vocal harmonies.  “Maze of Lies” has some rock muscle.  This track suggests that Hope has heard Tori Amos and Kate Bush but she isn’t chasing them. “Rapture” has more dance appeal.  “Destiny” is straightforward alternative rock.  Lyrically, Hope focuses on love and loss throughout these songs.

It’s interesting to follow the arc of a singer/songwriter, and to note what *doesn’t* change as a measure of how true the artist is to her own vision.
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Michael Riddick – Fossil Dundeon Records – Commentary
Jennifer Hope’s sophomore EP, “Reflections of an Enchanted Soul,” embraces a gentle fusion of ethereal and pop-styled expressions that culminate in a fine-tuned production of streamlined melodies and atmospheres certain to hook the listener into a world of dreamy and nostalgic environments.

Necropolis Fanzine/Radio Show – Review
I put the CD in my stereo and I prepared to listen to it. At first it sounded like any other CD with heavenly voices but then Jennifer’s voice came to me penetrating every pore of the room. Her delicate and angelic voice is so warm for being so dark, like the blowing of a gentle breeze while you are on top of the world with the stars being hugged by her sorrow. If Jennifer Hope’s voice is the thread guiding us we cannot go on without mentioning the delicate music that accompanies this dark angel. Piano, violins and electric guitars create the delicies we hear. All in all this music is very promising. These are good arrangements coming from a classical background which evolved into this dark sound. All of these arrangements inspire a way for you to feel and see her music. I also need to mention that the lyrics of these compositions flow very harmoniously with the music. This CD has 4 songs in which the third has been included on the Unquiet Grave compilation from Cleopatra Records. Personally I prefer the second song, “Passing of our Worlds”.

We are not standing in front of just any other “heavenly voices” CD, we are standing in front of a product of great quality. So, we eagerly await the release of Jennifer Hope’s LP.
Jose Gonzales - Necropolis Fanzine/Radio Show in Spain

Dark Wave Radio – Review
JENNIFER HOPE : Winds Of Tomorrow (Mystic Dreams Music, 4 tracks, gothic / atmospheric and symphonic music) : Jennifer Hope, composed only by Jennifer, releases here a good first opus under the CD format. The Jennifer Hope album could be described like a symphonic music only based on keyboards with female vocals and very good compositions. No drums, no guitars, only keyboards and excellent keyboards. We feel there are also some other influences here such as New Age or Ethereal music. A good first step for Jennifer, we hope (!!!!!) to listen to a full length CD very soon because we feel a big capacity…. We “Hope” !!!
Dark Wave Radio in Arras France

Grave Concerns Music Zine – Review
“Reflections of an Enchanted Soul”
(Mystic Dreams Music)
On “Reflections…” we find elements of pop, new wave, new age, & ethereal play out fervently behind Jennifer’s angelic vocals that have been compared to the likes of Kate Bush or The Cocteau Twins, & she’s certainly one to keep an eye out for in the future. Her music’s pretty & uplifting w/ definite hints of a forgotten time where’s there’s darkness & gaiety abound. Projekt enthusiasts & fans of the “Heavenly Voices” series should seriously investigate into this lovely woman. Personal favorites on this six song disc include “Reflections of an Enchanted Soul”, “Don’t Leave Destiny”, “Immortal Love”, & “Angels Alone (remix)”. [-Marcos-]

Rafa Cros Guiterrez – Radio DJ – Spain – Review
“After listening several times to her four songs it is not easy to get an exact description about this kind of music. A somewhat quiet voice, is the instrument which Jennifer Hope uses to show her vision of life. From California, we can listen to a few songs in quality, rather than in quantity. Included in “The Unquiet Grave”, from Cleopatra Records, Hope gives free rein to her inner imagination fusing New Age and Gothic Sounds with a clear quality sound and dark overtones in the lyrics.
Comparisons are always difficult, but for those people who haven´t had the chance to listen to her pretty, dark tracks it would be ideal to relate her with other bands that play similar kinds of music. Like Jennifer says, “my music is more Ethereal than Dark Gothic”. In this sense, perhaps we would relate her with The Cranes, Cocteau Twins and so on, but with a very clear bet for the New Age sounds. In these halos from Ethereal Music we discover some similitudes with Magenta, an amazing band from Norway, although Hope´s voice and Magenta’s-female voices vary evidently.
It is, in fact, a relaxed and clear music that introduces us into a world faster and faster less human. In “The Sky is Blushing”, her best song, she describes a world that is based in welfare and individualism and that renounces liberty, feelings and creativity.
In spite of this inhuman society, Jennifer shows us an open door towards Hope. Displaying of her surname, in “Passing of our worlds”, the bet for the victory of love over death is present. At the same time, her voice recalls those lonely spirits from “Angels Alone” who don´t apostate the truth and the emotions.
Really, Hope´s music is not for listening inside the coffin or in the crypt. It really contains a message of hope and quiet in front of what surrounds us. However, we can always finish by tasting some sentences from the dark side in the lyrics. Perhaps we find ourselves in front of a crossroads of musical genres. So far, Hope has been broadcasted in several European countries and in America. Her last conquest has been Australia. Where will she arrive next?
To sum up, poetry -of quality- to denounce the way of life in this end of the century trusts in a better future brought by the “Winds of Tomorrow”. In general, in front of similar female voices in every musical genre that Hope approaches we discover a strong personality in this artist. In the composition as well as in the execution of her works. Well have to wait and see what happens when she expands her own label, Mystic Dreams Music.”
Rafa Cros Guitierrez
Musical Journalist/Radio Presenter