Lights Out (Bishop Allen album)
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Bishop Allen live in Tucson, Arizona, March 22, 2009
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Genres | Indie rock |
| Years active | 2003–2015 (hiatus) |
| Labels | The Champagne School Dead Oceans |
| Associated acts | We Are Scientists |
| Website | www |
| Members |
Justin Rice (vocals & keyboards) |
Justin Rice (vocals & keyboards)
Christian Rudder (stringed instruments)
Darbie Rice (Nowatka) (keyboards, stringed instruments)
Keith Poulson (bass)
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.
Bishop Allen has released four albums and 12 EPs; their second album, The Broken String, was released in July 2007, Grrr..., was released in March 2009, and after a five-year hiatus they released their most recent album Lights Out in August 2014.
Rice and Rudder attended Harvard University where they were DJs on WHRB's punk/indie program, Record Hospital. The two formed a hardcore punk band called The Pissed Officers and self-released two split records with the then Boston-based Casio-core duo Gerty Farish. Rudder also played briefly in a Devo tribute band with members of Gerty Farish and Fat Day. Some years later Rudder and Rice took up residence at a house in Virginia where they recorded the music for their first album as Bishop Allen.
Charm School was Bishop Allen's first record. Recorded in fits and starts over two years, it grew song-by-song as Rice and Rudder wrote and played in their spare time. They recorded all the instruments on the album's 13 songs themselves, using drum loops to hide the fact that neither is a drummer, and almost everything on the record was recorded one track at a time in an ordinary bedroom. Backing vocals by Bonnie Schiff-Glenn and Kate Dollenmayer and supplementary drums by Coll Anderson, all added in the album's final stages, completed the songs.
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