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BREAKING NEWS: THE NY TIMES THINKS BISHOP ALLEN ARE "PROFESSIONAL"


Posted by Hartley On Mar 12, 2009

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2/5 members in plaid....I expected more frankly.

Brooklyn's Bishop Allen have alway held a special place in my heart. It's not only that my very own neice's hubby was the best man at BA-founder, Christian Rudder's wedding, or that one of my ex girlfriends used to work at the same chocolate shop as BA's old drummer...No. My love for Bishop Allen is directly tied to my love for smart unassuming pop songs free of pretentions and big on hooks. It's a simple enough formula and you would think more bands would've perfected it by now. And yet as I sit here in BRM HQ surrounded by stacks of new music, I can't think of another band who've consistently wrote as many memorably smart, poppy songs - "Charm School," "Rain," "Things Are What You Make of Them," "Empire City," "Middle Management," "Like Castanets," and on and on...

Well - the band's brand new album, cutesily titled, Grrr...(Dead Oceans) definitely delivers more bookish classics for that ass. While the cover art and the title may be cute overload ...see cover art:

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The songs definitely reflect the fact that the band is "all grown's up," but still hasn't lost it's endearingly youthful spirit. In fact, just this morning The NY Times attested to as much. You can read the love here. We at Bank Robber especially loved all the licensing kudos throughout the article - Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, name-dropping the ad-agency gig we hooked the band up with at McGarry Bowen that day etc - it's nice when someone actually gives us credit for something I must say. In truth, however, all this couldn't happen to a more deserving band - if you don't beleive me, check out these incredibly hooky new BA cuts.

Here's "The Ancient Common Sense of Things" off of Grrr... out now on Dead Oceans Records:

And "Oklahoma" too!

 

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