Name: Bark Your Head Off, Dog
Brand: Hop Along

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CS-LBJ-263

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Colour

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Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music US

Tape

Limited edition

Release date

2018-04-06

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

648401026344

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1 / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / Tape

CD-LBJ-263

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648401026320

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Hop Along

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Saddle Creek

Hop Along's new album Bark Your Head Off, Dog. Available here on Indie Exclusive Orange Colored Vinyl, LP, CD and Cassette.

Written over the course of 2016 and 2017 and recorded in the summer of the latter year by Frances Quinlan (songwriter / vocalist / rhythm guitar), Tyler Long (bass), Joe Reinhart (guitar), and Mark Quinlan (drums), the album addresses disappointment, particularly in man's misuse of power, and relates accounts from the periphery - one's attempts to retreat from the lengthening shadows of tyrants, both historical and everyday. It considers what it’s like to cast off longheld and misguided perceptions, yet without the assurance of knowing what new ones will replace them. Much like on Hop Along’s first and second records, Get Disowned and Painted Shut, Quinlan seeks in real time to work through these issues.

Throughout the album, one gets the sense that Quinlan is wandering in the thicket of a forest - a state of being that will feel familiar to long time listeners - and on this outing, she hasn’t left a trail of breadcrumbs behind her. The album’s artwork, which Quinlan painted herself, invites the listener into that forest, as well. “There is a terror in getting lost,” she says, “the woods are at the same time beautiful and horrifying.” This curious wandering gives the album, both lyrically and musically, a heightened dimensionality.

Bark Your Head Off, Dog is, without question, Hop Along’s most dynamic and textured record yet. Self-produced and recorded at The Headroom in Philadelphia by Reinhart and Kyle Pulley, Bark Your Head Off, Dog features the familiar sounds that have always made the band allergic to genre: grunge, folk, punk, and power pop all appear, with inspiration from ELO to Elvis Costello to ‘70s girl group vocal arrangements. This time around, they’ve added strings, more intricate rhythms, lush harmonies (featuring Thin Lips’ Chrissy Tashjian), along with a momentary visit with a vocoder. In more than one place, Mark Quinlan drums like he’s at a disco with Built to Spill. Most significantly, Bark Your Head Off, Dog shows the band at its strongest and most cohesive.

LP+ - Indie Exclusive Orange Colored Vinyl.

Bark Your Head Off, Dog

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