Hope for the Future is a song by Sir Paul McCartney that was originally written for the video game Destiny's Music of the Spheres album. Last year, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the game itself, we released The Discarded Instrument, a collection of the full album for piano, authentically recreated using the original orchestral scores from the Abbey Road recording sessions, as well as the same virtual piano used to compose the album. As part of that, we created a piano version of Hope for the Future featuring lead vocals from Paulo Clayton, who also performed a backup vocal part based on a cut boys choir layer of the original song (the boys choir is a "Discarded Instrument" of the song, so its inclusion felt natural).

We’re thrilled to now be releasing the standalone version of the song, as well as an extra bonus piano cover of the rare "Sweet Thrash" remix of the song that Owen worked on with Xavier Scheetz. Paulo gladly returned to do the vocals for it, and we mixed this to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the "Sweet Thrash" vinyl from Record Store Day 2015. We've also included an edit that's intended to match the radio edit of the main song, as well as two new piano mixes based on different elements of the original song. The first arrangement is based on an earlier version of the song's orchestral component and the second is based on the final song's strings, brass, piano, and guitars. We also recorded new vocals for some of these mixes from Laura Intravia, the featured solo vocalist from the Destiny franchise. Lastly, I commissioned artwork of Sir Paul wearing the armor he himself donned while playing the original game.

We hope you enjoy our ode to Paul McCartney's primary contribution to Destiny, and to video games in general.