Essentially, the original band is back together with the "new" guy (who's been around for a decade). Berkowitz rejoining the band was a direct result of the excavation of HannaH.
For this record, the current five-member lineup of Berk, Malerman, Stocker, guitarist/vocalist Mark Owen (who left the band after the first album and rejoined in 2016), and guitarist wünderkind Stephen Palmer (who joined in 2011) has been joined by original member Jason Berkowitz. On top of that, the band has also been recording a new High Strung album in Malerman's living room. There are also plans to release a recent ongoing project titled Southfield consisting of Malerman on bass, Stocker on drums, and Owen on guitar. Stocker came across enough High Strung outtakes in his vault dive to lead to two upcoming odds and sods collections, Oohs and Ahs and Ooze and Oz. Drummer Derek Berk keeps things tight until a break, bridge, or chorus calls him to drop an energetic Keith Moon-style blast, while Stocker sounds like a Revolver-era Paul McCartney threatening to run off the rails. The lyrics have all the hallmarks of High Strung songs to follow - full of wild imagination and alternately poignant and funny, all backed by one of the best rock rhythm sections. The songs are full of hooks, a wide range of great guitar sounds, classic rock references, and catchy sing-a-longs.
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Much like Josh Malerman, the band's prolific frontman and (author of books like Bird Box, which was made into a movie by Netflix), the band itself is madly inventive.
The biggest revelation of the album is what an amazing band The High Strung were from the start. Yet it got lost in the wake of the release of their "proper" studio album, TAGT, due to not having a record deal at the time and the band's famously relentless touring. Ten tight stylistically varied songs in under 30 minutes.
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