Bishop Allen released their new album Grrr… on Tuesday, and while I haven’t picked it up yet (I will next week when I see their show), I did run across the video they did for the first single “Dimmer”, and it continues to uphold my thesis that indie rock videos are full of win at being awesomely wacked out, especially when the band goes for a DIY kind of aesthetic. That said, I’m not loving this song as much as most of the ones on their previous album The Broken String or their 2007 monthly EP project. But I tend to like Bishop Allen songs the more I listen to them, so we’ll see.
For movie tie-ins, Bishop Allen was featured in Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, performing their song “Middle Management” in the film for about four seconds (the whole song is on the soundtrack), and frontman Justin Rice played the lead in Andrew Bujalski’s Mutual Appreciation as, perhaps predictably, a musician trying to get off the ground. Incidentally, I have fangirl dibs on the bassist in the band, at least unless someone can prove dibs before November, which probably wouldn’t be hard, since November’s pretty recent. Never mind.
Links:
Grrr… at Amazon.com MP3
Official Site
MySpace
Hat tip You Ain’t No Picasso and I Guess I’m Floating.
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