Listen to Fred Armisen and Bill Hader’s New Talking Heads Parody Album

Last night, Fred Armisen and Bill Hader parodied Jonathan Demme’s 1984 Talking Heads documentary Stop Making Sense on their IFC series “Documentary Now!” The episode, “Final Transmission,” follows a band called Test Pattern during their final concert. Watch the episode here.

Today, Armisen and Hader have released the real debut album from Test Pattern. Like the episode, it’s called Final Transmission, and has music from the episode. It includes the previously released track “Too Much Information,” which includes Maya Rudolph on keyboards and Superchunk/Scharpling & Wurster’s Jon Wurster on drums. Listen to Test Pattern’s Final Transmission, and see the cover artwork, below.

Last year, Armisen and Hader released an EP as Blue Jean Committee, another band they created for the IFC program.

Revisit Test Pattern’s “Late Night With Seth Meyers” performance of “Art + Student = Poor”:

Watch Fred Armisen with the Lonely Island on Pitchfork.tv’s “Over/Under”:

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