Bark Your Head Off, Dog

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Bark Your Head Off, Dog
Hop Along Bark Your Head Off, Dog.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 6, 2018
Recorded2017
StudioThe Headroom (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Genre Indie rock
Length40:09
Label Saddle Creek
Producer Hop Along, Joe Reinhart
Hop Along chronology
Painted Shut
(2015)
Bark Your Head Off, Dog
(2018)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic? 7.8/10 [1]
Metacritic 81/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [3]
The A.V. Club B− [4]
DIY Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Drowned in Sound 9/10 [6]
Exclaim! 9/10 [7]
Pitchfork 8.0/10 [8]
The Skinny Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [9]
Under the Radar 7/10 [10]

Bark Your Head Off, Dog is the fourth studio album by American indie rock band Hop Along. It was self-produced, written over the course of 2016 and 2017, recorded at The Headroom in Philadelphia during 2017, and released on April 6, 2018. [11]

Contents

Critical reception

Bark Your Head Off, Dog was met with "universal acclaim" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 81 based on 14 reviews. [2] Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 79 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 20 reviews. [12]

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."How Simple"3:48
2."Somewhere a Judge"3:52
3."How You Got Your Limp"2:36
4."Not Abel"4:36
5."The Fox in Motion"3:59
6."One That Suits Me"5:16
7."What the Writer Meant"4:07
8."Look of Love"6:12
9."Prior Things"5:43

Charts

Chart performance for Bark Your Head Off, Dog
Chart (2018)Peak
position
US Heatseekers Albums ( Billboard ) [13]
2
US Independent Albums ( Billboard ) [14]
9

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