Andy Hull announced fourth studio album would be titled Cope

On December 8, 2013, Andy Hull announced in a video interview with Matt Pinfield that their fourth studio album would be titled Cope , and was slated for release on April 1, 2014. On January 21, 2014, an official statement from the band confirmed this information. The album’s first single, “Top Notch”, was released alongside the announcement. Pre-orders for CD and LP copies of the album were subsequently added to the band’s online store. On February 25, 2014, the album’s second single, “Every Stone”, was released. On September 16, 2014, Manchester Orchestra surprise-released Hope , a song-by-song re-imagining of Cope with stripped down and more emotionally driven versions of each song. On Hope , Andy Hull stated that the band “aimed for nasty and guttural stuff on Cope , and this was more like, ‘How pretty can this be?’ I’ve always liked both sensibilities. This was an opportunity to see if we could sit down and do it for a whole album.” They also announced a 13-date tour in support of Hope .