The Hi-Frequencies

Formed within a ’20s-vintage clapboard farmhouse in north Pittsburgh suburb of Ohio Township in 1998, Hi-Frequencies toss detail-obsessed surf rock and roll and early garage area playing right into a blender and strike the majestic power pop press button. But as very much simply because audiophile-level sound replication is normally a key towards the group’s sound, therefore is normally conjuring the heart from the pleasant area of the early ’60s over the Western world Coast, discovering its limitations and growing them. Certainly, vocal quantities like “Junior Varsity” and “TO ACCOMPLISH,” and restricted, cost-effective instrumentals like “Clairton Defeat” and “Stranded” betray greater than a way of measuring ’90s-period indie rock and roll self-consciousness and determination to test. After starting up with guitarist Jason Lizzi within the middle-’90s, vocalist/songwriter/guitarist Costs McAdams fulfilled drummer Costs Scully while functioning at garage rock and roll institution Obtain Hip Information in 1998. Scully’s dad, also Costs, was drummer for Clairton garage area rockers the Arondies, whose Pittsburgh radio strike “69” marketed some 1,200 copies in its initial two times of discharge in the summertime of 1965. They performed largely with out a bass until McAdams fulfilled Kate Daley on the bookstore where they both proved helpful. After many lineup shifts and something immaculately designed 7″ one — the energy pop “Junior Varsity” — they began gigging intensely. Hi-Frequencies released their formal, self-titled debut in August 2002, and eyed nationwide schedules that fall.