It’s a cozy, light-filled place with enough books, records and paintings strewn gracefully around to make it clear that an artist lives here. The morning before the rehearsal, Quinlan is sitting in the living room of the northeast Philadelphia row house where she’s lived for the last four years.
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“I’m proud of that record, but in terms of writing and arrangement, I just wasn’t equipped to communicate the feelings that I had,” she says, noting that it was the first album they made with the full lineup of the Quinlan siblings, Reinhart and Long in place. It wasn’t uncommon that year to see beer-soaked rooms falling silent as Frances Quinlan sang the ballad “Happy to See Me.” Yet she now sees the 2015 LP as a transitional step in the band’s evolution. The sound is a sleek hybrid of heartland rock and New Wave cool, with a hint of Daft Punk vocoder the lyrics are a thorny ramble through romantic frustration, capital punishment, and the meaning of guilt, among other subjects.Ĭritics raved about Painted Shut, celebrating its immediacy and emotional depth. Take “Somewhere a Judge,” which the band spent months writing and rewriting until just before entering the studio last year. Each song is a miniature prismatic world that might shatter kaleidoscopically without warning. Bark Your Head Off, Dog, the dizzily ambitious album Hop Along released this spring, is a studio record, full of subtle shifts in tone and tempo. Right now, everyone is feeling a little sweaty and a little rusty.
sharp, they’ll pile into a van for the next leg of their summer tour. Hop Along have been rehearsing in a windowless basement in southern New Jersey for most of a late July afternoon, and Frances Quinlan is doing her best to keep her bandmates and herself motivated.
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