Hop Along hail from the distant riverside haven of Philadelphia although along with much homegrown music, Tibetan Pop Stars (lifted from forthcoming debut full-length Get Disowned) was constructed in a vacant warehouse (albeit one in the northernmost reaches of the Pennsylvanian city). The track itself bristles with raw and emotive guitars, and is propelled by Frances Quinian's desperation-embalmed vox and the visceral repetition of the refrain: "Nobody deserves you the way that I do." Sounding like
Kathleen Edwards letting her every hair down and dribbling her heart out over a chaotic studio session with
The Thermals, it's 'big', 'hard', hefty and gloriously hectic. Giant Drag may have been halted in their tracks just as they began to hit their stride although the hardened spirit of Hardy evidently trucks on in Quinian.
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