Hop Along's Frances Quinlan tells us about her solo album, 'Likewise': 'I just wanted to see where else I could go'
. The band’s bassist, Tyler Long, was moving with his wife to Birmingham, Alabama; their drummer, Quinlan’s older brother Mark, was a new dad with responsibilities at home. That left Quinlan and Joe Reinhart, Hop Along’s lead guitarist and primary producer, at loose ends in Philly.Working at the Headroom — the local studio, co-owned by Reinhart, where they’ve made most of Hop Along’s catalog — they started off by revisiting a pair of songs left over from thesessions.
Instead, she and Reinhart built out her new songs in surprising directions. “Rare Thing,” a feverish dream-song about Quinlan’s young niece, blossomed with real and programmed drum rhythms. For “Piltdown Man,” they subtracted the guitars from an early demo and replaced them with cool Rhodes keys and found noise. At one point, she tried giving that song a harmonica riff that they quickly abandoned: “I was like, ‘Yeah, go get the harmonica, man.
Working in quick, spontaneous bursts — a shift from Hop Along’s time- and labor-intensive approach — they got down most of an album by the end of that year. “That’s the thing, not worrying about anything having to be organic or having to be playable by a band or whatever,” Quinlan says. “We just went for it.”
The album she ended up with has an easeful feeling that Quinlan links to touchstones like Van Morrison’s
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