Grrr... (Bishop Allen album)

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Grrr...
Grrr cover.jpg
Studio album by Bishop Allen
Released March 10, 2009
Genre Indie rock
Length35:42
Label Dead Oceans
Bishop Allen chronology
The Broken String
(2007) The Broken String2007
Grrr...
(2009)
Lights Out
(2014) Lights Out2014
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
The A.V. Club (B) [1]
NME (5/10)[ citation needed ]
Pitchfork Media (3.5/10) [2]
The Skinny Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]

Grrr... is the third full-length album by the indie rock group Bishop Allen. It was released on March 10, 2009. It is the follow-up to their 2007 album, The Broken String .

Indie rock is a genre of rock music that originated in the United States and United Kingdom in the 1970s. Originally used to describe independent record labels, the term became associated with the music they produced and was initially used interchangeably with alternative rock. As grunge and punk revival bands in the US and Britpop bands in the UK broke into the mainstream in the 1990s, it came to be used to identify those acts that retained an outsider and underground perspective. In the 2000s, as a result of changes in the music industry and the growing importance of the Internet, some indie rock acts began to enjoy commercial success, leading to questions about its meaningfulness as a term.

Bishop Allen band

Bishop Allen is an American indie rock band from Brooklyn, New York. The band's core members are Justin Rice and Christian Rudder, who are supported both on stage and in the studio by a rotating cast of musical collaborators. The band was formed in 2003 and grew out of Rice and Rudder's friendship; it takes its name from Bishop Allen Drive in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where the two lived together after attending Harvard University.

<i>Bishop Allen & The Broken String</i> album by Bishop Allen

Bishop Allen and the Broken String is the second full-length album by the indie rock group Bishop Allen. It was released on July 24, 2007.

Track listing

  1. "Dimmer" – 2:46
  2. "The Lion & the Teacup" – 3:01
  3. "South China Moon" – 3:03
  4. "Dirt on Your New Shoes" – 2:43
  5. "Oklahoma" – 3:06
  6. "The Ancient Commonsense of Things" – 3:13
  7. "True or False" – 2:39
  8. "Rooftop Brawl" – 2:55
  9. "Shanghaied" – 2:33
  10. "Don't Hide Away" – 2:26
  11. "Cue the Elephants" – 2:39
  12. "The Magpie" – 1:46
  13. "Tiger, Tiger" – 3:03

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References

  1. A.V. Club review
  2. Pitchfork Media review
  3. The Skinny review