Grrr... - Bishop Allen
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  • Summary: This is the third full-length for the Brooklyn, New York, indie-rock band.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 12
  2. Negative: 1 out of 12
  1. Much of Grrr...ventures pretty far into the cutesy-as the album's title suggests--but more often than not, Rice and Rudder's strong rock-sense gives Bishop Allen's songs enough kick to overcome their cloying elements.
  2. Twee without being cloying, Bishop Allen have dropped any signifiers that might make us think Tilly & the Wall (the clattering percussion, and urgent male/female vocals), and manage to present their light-hearted lyrics as sincere.
  3. Grrr... seems transcribed from a distant memory or read from the pages of a script.

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