Hopeful Tragedy Records is a 2007-formed, Quebec-based record label founded by Alex Henry Foster & Jeff Beaulieu.

The label was founded for promoting their band Your Favorite Enemies’ first EP, titled “And If I Was To Die In The Morning… Would I Still Be Sleeping With You”, which was released on June 1st, 2007. The second EP, “Love Is A Promise Whispering Goodbye” followed one year later. Nowadays, the label is also home to Alex Henry Foster & The Long Shadows, Sef Lemelin, as well as many artists from the underground EDM scene of Montreal.

In 2010, they moved to the outskirts of Montreal, where they turned a former catholic church into a professional recording studio. Wanting to act of their own accord, on their own terms, and wanting to be independent, as their DIY values dictate them, they have also established their own band merch factory & warehouse, a small lathe-cut vinyl plant, as well as video & podcast recording facilities and live streams installations inside the walls. Thus was born The Upper Room Studio. 

Since its inception, the studio has been used to record the Juno-nominated album Between Illness and Migration by Your Favorite Enemies, the top-charting Windows in the Sky by Alex Henry Foster, Conrad Keely’s Original Machines, was also host to the Canadian Music Week in 2021 and to several live-broadcast.

The church, then devoid of congregants, suddenly became a place of a communion once again, lifted up by the music resonating between its walls.