The Bland Allisons is the primary songwriting project of Chris Kiehne, a Baltimore boy currently living in Brooklyn, NY. Chris Kiehne writes songs about zombies, Hamlet, man-eating grizzlies, and the destiny of the human soul.

Kiehne is a staunch proponent of traditional songwriting elements: orchestrated guitars, pianos, organs, banjos, mandolins, and pedal-steels; song structures concerned more with enduring beauty than eccentricity or dissonant charm. The Bland Allisons' debut EP, Butcher's Son (featuring Sonya Cotton), is the narrative prologue to the Kiehne's upcoming Pray For Daylight LP. It concerns the struggle of its doomed protagonists in the midst of an unraveling world, where the walking dead have risen from the earth, and where the infection is spreading.

KIND WORDS FOR BUTCHER'S SON:

"[Butcher's Son] is a concept album about the walking dead. Acoustic instruments and zombies, it turns out, are a match made in heaven." -- coreweekly.com

"The prettiest music about zombies I ever heard. ... there's a flood, and open graves, and razor teeth ... consider it the trailer to the movie. I wonder if the title character in "Run, Rachel, Run" will make it to daylight; so long as the music sounds like this, I'll be ok if she doesn't." -- 75 or Less