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Bishop Allen’s The Broken String is a great album, but a lot of its greatness comes from subtlety. I went into last night’s show at The Black Cat in DC with some worries about how the songs would translate to a live show. On top of those worries, the band had announced that they would be playing a lot of material from their upcoming album on this tour. So not only was I worried about how the old material would translate, but on top of that I was worried about how good the new songs would be. Turns out I shouldn’t worry so much. The old songs were great, and the new songs were as good or better. Check out “Middle Management”, the last song before the encore:

