Bishop Allen - The Broken String

In 2006, the band self-released an EP every month of the year. Fifty-eight songs later, Bishop Allen's pop smarts sound timeless, escaping the indie-pop idiom and revealing a language informed by the Kinks, Dylan and the Zombies. On this, their sophomore album, the band made a quantum leap. Of it's twelve songs, ten are reworded tracks from the EPs and two are previously unreleased. These are not just re-recordings. The songs' arrangements have grown, the production is lush, the lyrics are front and center, and the band's evolution has reached a new level. THE BROKEN STRING is poised to be the pop soundtrack to the summer.

1) Monitor the
2) Rain
3) Click Click Click Click
4) Chinatown Bus the
5) Flight 180
6) Like Castanets
7) Butterfly Nets
8) Shrinking Violet
9) Corazon
10) Middle Management
11) Choose Again
12) News from Your Bed the