Bark Your Head Off, Dog

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]

Bark Your Head Off, Dog
Studio album by Hop Along
Released	April 6, 2018
Recorded	2017
Studio	The Headroom (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Genre	Indie rock
Length	40:09
Label	Saddle Creek
Producer	Hop Along, Joe Reinhart
Hop Along chronology
Painted Shut (2015) Bark Your Head Off, Dog (2018)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	7.8/10[1]
Metacritic	81/100[2]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
The A.V. Club	B−[4]
DIY	[5]
Drowned in Sound	9/10[6]
Exclaim!	9/10[7]
Pitchfork	8.0/10[8]
The Skinny	[9]
Under the Radar	7/10[10]

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.	Title	Length
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

References

1. "Bark Your Head Off, Dog by Hop Along reviews". AnyDecentMusic?. Retrieved September 7, 2019.
2. "Bark Your Head Off, Dog by Hop Along Reviews and Tracks". Metacritic. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
3. Donelson, Marcy. "Bark Your Head Off, Dog – Hop Along". AllMusic. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
4. McLevy, Alex (April 6, 2018). "Hop Along, Bark Your Head Off, Dog". The A.V. Club. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
5. Richards, Will (April 6, 2018). "Hop Along – Bark Your Head Off, Dog". DIY. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
6. Slaughter, Matthew (April 16, 2018). "Album Review: Hop Along – Bark Your Head Off, Dog". Drowned in Sound. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
7. Firth, Cole (April 3, 2018). "Hop Along: Bark Your Head Off, Dog". Exclaim!. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
8. Greene, Jayson (April 6, 2018). "Hop Along: Bark Your Head Off, Dog". Pitchfork. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
9. Butchard, Stephen (April 3, 2018). "Hop Along – Bark Your Head Off, Dog". The Skinny. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
10. Turner-Heffer, Adam (April 3, 2018). "Hop Along: Bark Your Head Off, Dog (Saddle Creek) Review". Under the Radar. Retrieved June 27, 2018.
11. "Bark Your Head Off, Dog". Saddle Creek Records. Retrieved April 11, 2018.
13. "Heatseekers Albums Chart". Billboard. Retrieved October 13, 2020.
14. "Independent Albums Chart". Billboard. Retrieved October 13, 2020.

Further reading

• https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/we-will-both-find-out-just-not-together-a-conversation-with-hop-along