Games get played over and over. Country games (like Hamlet’s “country matters”), like knitting crowns out of grasses, counting clovers, chasing each other in and out of bedrooms, where holes emit confetti and squirrel pearls dribble, games like playing hard to get, or making demands while refusing to put a name to wants, intimate or sexual or domestic.

Teasing games which rework desire. How desire is remade over and over again. Caught in the mouth of the “you” the song addresses, the second-person who is anyone listening, me or you.

We’re in a world of animals, of things and their sensations, wet, drippy, sweet. And if things get sweet, they also get sticky. Song entreating us to slurp them up, or choke them down. What’s given, or taken, tops, bottoms, subordination, submission.

What we want from each other, to be loved, to be the bristles, the juices, the oyster, and to reimagine the fullness of a together, in a field, in a bed, in a song.

Surprise — it’s our new year’s gift to you. You Would Like That, Hop’s debut album, arrives Friday, January 2, 2026, in cassette and digital formats via Soap Library. A handmade beaded buddy — a tiny echo of the cover image — reaches out from the tape’s spine, wide-eyed and curious, clutching its little device, offering you the world: a fresh slate, a new tape, a promise you might want to hold close.
credits
released January 2, 2026

All music written and performed by Hop
Mixed and Mastered by Hop
Cover Art by Hop
Design and Layout by J. Campolo
Product Shots by J. Campolo
Album Copy by Josh Minkus
Project Management by Kerry Santullo