Hop Along: Horseshoe Crabs, Live On Soundcheck

Read the entire interview at Watch Hop Along perform Horseshoe Crabs from its album, Painted Shut, in the Soundcheck studio. It s practically impossible not to be drawn in by Hop Along s spiky and catchy melodies, or Frances Quinlan s distinctively frayed voice. Starting roughly ten years ago as a solo songwriting outlet then called Hop Along, Queen Ansleis Quinlan crafted lofi folk songs while in art school in Baltimore, and released her first record, Freshman Year, in 2006. But it wasn t until she relocated to Philadelphia after graduation, moved in with and started playing music with her brother Mark that a full band began to take shape. There s a clear musical chemistry between the two siblings: His heavy and precise, metalinformed drumming serves as a counterpoint to her idiosyncratic singing creating an pushpull, quietthenloud dynamic that defines the Hop Along,