High Hopes is the second release by Australian group, The Amity Affliction

The Amity Affliction

The Amity Affliction is an Australian post-hardcore band from Gympie, Queensland formed in 2002.The band's current line-up is Joel Birch , Ahren Stringer , Ryan Burt and Troy Brady...

. The first pressing came in a CD/DVD package with subsequent pressings lacking the DVD. It marks a shift in the band's sound, with the addition of keyboard and samples, as well as acoustic sections.

Track listing

Trivia

Several of the songs on the EP contain audio clips.

• "Straight Up!" includes content from episode 10 of season 2 of the late 1980s/early 1990s Canadian television series Degrassi High
  Degrassi High
  Degrassi High is the third television show in the Degrassi series of teen dramas about the lives of a group of kids living on or near De Grassi Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It first aired from 1989 to 1991 and followed the kids from Kids of Degrassi Street and Degrassi Junior High through...
  
  , entitled "Showtime Part 1".
• "R.I.P. Steggy" features an audio clip from the film Training Day
  Training Day
  Training Day is a 2001 crime drama film directed by Antoine Fuqua, written by David Ayer, starring Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke. The film follows two LAPD narcotics detectives over a 24-hour period in the gang neighborhoods of South and East Los Angeles.The film was a box office success and...
  
  at the beginning of the song.
• "Cut It Out" includes content from the film, The Butterfly Effect
  The Butterfly Effect
  The Butterfly Effect is a 2004 American sci-fi psychological thriller film that is written and directed by Eric Bress and J. Mackye Gruber and starring Ashton Kutcher and Amy Smart...
  
  , and at the end, a snippet from Degrassi High, "Showtime Part 1" and the following episode, "Showtime Part 2".