It's always nice to read sweet things influential websites have to say about your friends. Pitchfork had the following to say about the lovely boys of Ivy League and the video for their song London Bridges, featuring a bunch of our friends in NY and made by the one and only cryingboy:
Video: This Is Ivy League: "London Bridges"
When Brian Howe reviewed "London Bridges" almost exactly a year ago, he commented that Ivy League were "working the same seam of homely beauty and prematurely autumnal sentimentality" as the Whitest Boy Alive and Peter Bjorn & John. That description still holds, but in the interim, a lot has changed: Ivy League have added a This Is to their name (a previous group by the same name threatened Ivy Litigation), signed to Twentyseven Records (new album scheduled for March 2008), and finally made a video for "London Bridges". Directed by artist Dan Estabrook, the clip creates and sustains a soft-focus weirdness, borrowing all the elements you'd expect from a postmillennial Chad & Jeremy-- blazers, bicycles, merry-go-rounds, a park in autumn-- while adding a few new flourishes-- women in animal costumes, gently evocative use of color and pattern. Alex Suarez and Ryan Blackinton croon their crisp harmonies, finishing each other's sentences and riffs, nearly symmetrical as they perform atop their pedestals for the animal woman.
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