New Bishop Allen - "Dimmer" & "The Ancient Commonsense Of Things"

A line about a heart "pounding loud like a timpani" in "The Ancient Commensense Of Things"'s delivered with a sort of John Darnielle intonation. And "Dimmer" comes back a few times to an "olly olly oxen free." Bishop Allen's pop includes a variety of strings and keyboards and voices, but when listening to these tracks from the Brooklyn-via-Harvard Andrew Bujalski-approved band's third full-length Grrr..., I find myself focusing more on the words and how they're enunciated than the hooks. No, the...

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