Hop Along – Bark Your Head Off, Dog – Vinyl Record

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Bark Your Head Off, Dogis, without question,Hop Along’smost dynamic and textured record yet. Self-produced and recorded at The Headroom in Philadelphia by guitaristJoe ReinhartandKyle Pulley, their third effort overall 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 Quinlandrums like he’s at a disco with Built to Spill.Most significantly,Bark Your Head Off, Dogshows the band at its strongest and most cohesive.Hop Alonghas never sounded so deliberate, so balanced.

1. How Simple
2. Somewhere a Judge
3. How You Got Your Limp
4. Not Abel
5. The Fox in Motion
6. One That Suits Me
7. What the Writer Meant
8. Look of Love
9. Prior Things