Pitchfork

Having spread the rough equivalent of four albums' worth of new jams through their daunting one-EP-per-month project in 2006, Brooklyn's Bishop Allen wasted no time sewing together The Broken String, their second full-length release, yours for the taking July 24 from the babyfaced Dead Oceans label. The Broken String packs nine proper studio reworkings of tracks from the dozen EPs, two new cuts, and a whole lot of deft, charming indie pop.

The hustle and bustle of Bishop Allen doesn't stop in the studio; no, they've got a full tour kicking off tonight in the City of Big Shoulders, followed by a bunch of dates with Philly popsters the Teeth and Page France.

And then there's that movie where Justin Rice dresses up like a giant pigeon. Yup, still funny.

The Broken String:

01 The Monitor
02 Rain
03 Click, Click, Click, Click
04 The Chinatown Bus
05 Flight 180
06 Like Castanets
07 Butterfly Nets
08 Shrinking Violet
09 Corazon
10 Middle Management
11 Choose Again
12 The News From Your Bed

Bishop Allen:

06-27 Chicago, IL - Beat Kitchen *#
06-28 Toronto, Ontario - Lee's Palace *
07-20 New York, NY - South Street Seaport
07-21 Philadelphia, PA - North Star Bar *^
07-22 Washington, DC - The Black Cat *^
07-23 Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506 *^
07-24 Atlanta, GA - The Earl *^
07-25 Baton Rouge, LA - Spanish Moon *^
07-26 Houston, TX - The Proletariat *^
07-27 Austin, TX - Emo's *^
07-28 Denton, TX - Hailey's ^
07-29 Dallas, TX - Good Records (in-store)
07-30 Phoenix, AZ - The Paper Heart ^
07-31 Los Angeles, CA - The Echo ^
08-01 San Francisco, CA - The Independent ^
08-03 Portland, OR - Doug Fir ^
08-04 Seattle, WA - Crocodile Café ^
08-06 Provo, UT - TBA ^
08-07 Denver, CO - Hi Dive ^
08-08 Omaha, NE - The Slowdown ^
08-09 Chicago, IL - Subterranean ^
08-10 Bloomington, IN - Bluebird ^
08-11 Dayton, OH - Elbo's ^
08-17 Cambridge, MA - Middle East Downstairs ^
08-18 New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom ^

* with the Teeth
# with Locksley
^ with Page France