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HOP ALONG

Hop Along is a band from Philadelphia made up of Frances Quinlan (songwriter/vocalist/rhythm guitar), Tyler Long (bass), Joe Reinhart (guitar), and Mark Quinlan (drummer). The band’s most recent album, Bark Your Head Off, Dog, was released in 2018 to critical and commercial acclaim. The highly lauded record addressed 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. 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.

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. Hop Along (which originally began as Quinlan’s solo project under the moniker Hop Along, Queen Ansleis) has never sounded so deliberate, so balanced.

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SADURN

Sadurn is a Philadelphia band led by Genevieve DeGroot. It started as a solo project, with some recordings stretching back to 2017, but expanded to a full band a couple years back. Today, they're announcing their debut album, Radiator, which will be out on Run For Cover in May.

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