Oh man. Their first two are fuckin stellar. I think the third one is just watered down. They went indie pop, shifting away from their more indie roots.

It’s hard to describe. They got more melodic? That doesn’t make much sense, but her voice changed from kind of a little more atonal/flat (but also full of emotion) to a more sing-songy thing. And the guitar tones were smoothed out. They just got shinier. It doesn’t work for me. Their first two albums speak to me, the emotion is raw and her singing really complements the poetry. The third album feels like…I dunno. She’s singing but doesn’t have as much to say? It’s weird and it’s all personal preference. Someone below was saying they think Hop Along’s third studio album is their best. Where I think their first is their only actually good one. I bet personally attached to whole albums.

Now, there is a kind of thing that happens with art, where you get personally attached to previously existing works and are wary of anything that comes out later. And maybe that’s factoring in some (although CC I paid attention to the last two out of three)—but id also argue that some of my favorite bands kept making newer stuff that continued to stay good and fresh. I can actually think of quite a few. So I take his entire paragraph back, I’m definitely right about the third one sucking lol