Barkhoff

Barkhoff is the third album of Mike Barkhoff. Self titled, it consists of eleven instrumentals made to 'box a concept'. It was released July 16th, 2021.

Background
Barkhoff had the idea when considering classical musicians, and wanted to make something similar but with new sounds. Originally, each track would be titled "Barkhoff #".

The final song is titled "Revoir", which translates to 'goodbye' in French. Barkhoff similarly opened up Live Free with a video hinting at a return entitled "Revenoir", which was French for "hello".

Themes
Though an instrumental album, it contains themes, primarily by way of title, about a failing friendship and anxiety from people in Barkhoff's life.

Barkhoff similarly used title names to evoke concepts in his EP UnSymmetrical.

Tracklist

 * 1) Snakes Surround
 * 2) Purple Piano Play
 * 3) Accelerating Acceleration, Excelerating
 * 4) Frequent Frequency
 * 5) Smooth Sailing
 * 6) Dugstuck
 * 7) Dubstuff
 * 8) Stuck Sorrow
 * 9) Knowing Knock
 * 10) Settling Scores
 * 11) Revoir

The titles are all alliterations, save for three. Due to this, Tracks 6 and 7 act as a type of Interlude.

Reception
The album was met with highly positive reviews. It performed better than Windfall (Soundtrack) on streaming night, but less than Death, My Darling (Soundtrack).