I haven't mentioned Bishop Allen around here in over a year, and even that was only to comment that they have a song on the Saved soundtrack. I haven't talked about their music since May of 2004. Which is odd, because they're one of my favorite bands.
The problem is that they only have one album. They'd been working on their second, Clementines, for over a year, but started shopping around for a label. For a while, the rumor was that they'd signed with Polyvinyl, which is cool as that's the label for both Rainer Maria and Mates of State, both acts that I love. Only apparently the Polyvinyl deal fell through and fans of Bishop Allen were bereft of new tunes from them on CD.
But today I saw something really strange at the Bishop Allen website. The band's decided to do something... well, a little nuts. They're releasing a new four song EP every month of 2006, for $5 each, building up to the anticipated release of Clementines next year, which won't contain any songs from the EPs. Four songs a month, for twelve months, plus a ten to twelve track album after that. So about 60 new songs over the course of the next year. That's just crazy.
Crazy awesome.