Artist description sophisticated, sexy, street wise rock for everyday metropolitan life.

Music Style Shoegazer, Britpop

Musical Influences Verve, MBV, Ride, Portishead, Slowdive, Adorable, Stone Roses,The Charlatans UK, Bowery Electric, Blur, Primal Scream, Massive Attack, Gorillaz

Similar Artists Actually, not really like anyone else thank you.

Artist History wait for the book.

Group Members Alex White, E.J. Hagen, Ron Snyder, Isaac Betesh, Kevin Fassett

Instruments confidence, talent, good ears, some music theory, enough pints and the willingness to make our lives 10 times more difficult to do what we genuinely believe in

Albums ::your everything:: summer '03

Press Reviews "Holy Batsh*t, there’s a rumble going down in Philadelphia’ the caped crusader in another existence would probably be heard to say to his long standing stand kick on hearing the Highspire long player 'Your Everything'. Many moons ago this publication espoused the vitues of dreampop, a genre of music that was as sublime as it was ethereal, dream like collages creating mood inducing atmospherics, all the while never departing from the central ideal of developing a colossal wall of sound of symphonic pop. From a personal point of view if I was pushed to offer up an album that pinpointed this style perfectly it would have to be this one, packed to the rafters with shimmering, serrated guitars, that glide heavenly creating colourful swirls to engage the listener. It seems to me through repeated plays that this quartet founded in 2000 by Messrs Hagen and White have a keen ear for all things early 90’s UK guitar pop, that’s not say that this album is retro or copyist, far from it, this is your total fully paid up flame grilled original, soaring guitar chords, cavernous back drops and celestial melodies carved from towering ice topped monuments. That said the style though polished and tightened fixates around the so-called shoe gazing era of pop rock, reference points immediately conjure up the magnificent Ride and early Charlatans, throw in a bit of the dearly missed Kitchens of Distinction and Slowdive, the pre ‘Wake up’ Boo Radleys circa ‘Tortoise shell’ and best of all the remnants of the divine Chameleons cascade lovingly through these arcing. Maybe all this is detracting from the album itself, and what an album it is, high powered no nonsense classicism. Opening with the rush of the carved glacial treads of ‘Until the lights go down’, a track of such omnipresent magnitude and sounding like angels harnessing the rush of hurricanes for their own sonic entertainment. ‘Believe’ quickly follows strummed open chords herald the fanfares of the brass barks, very uplifting. ‘Fade in a day’ cruises beneath a majestic, while ‘Shattered’ evokes the union of The Ramones grooving with prime time ‘Jesus and Chain’. Changing emphasis slightly is the instrumental ‘Sub par life, a brilliant death’ which sees the band loosen up with a seriously chunky bass giving an almost funky sheen to it all. ‘No day like today’ is probably the high point all said and done, haunting atmospherics with subtle John Barry-esque edges to it. Last and by no means least the enigmatic though creepy entreaties of ‘Turn for the worse’ bubbles in watery effects to a mysterious conclusion. BY leaving the CD running for at least ten minutes after the close of the final track you get a hidden track that acts somewhat out of sync with the rest of the album, nonetheless the hallucogenic drone like echo effects had us all yip yip yipping here. Precious." --LosingToday Magazine "Philadelphia’s Highspire are taking us on a trip that we love from England’s best artists, circa 1990. It’s as if Ride and The Charlatans were in the same band at that time. The boys play a sort of shoegaze guitar trip with a ton of swagger. Alex White and E.J. Hagen originally formed this band with a ton of beer and a need to change the musical direction of garage rock that fills the city. It’s a good thing that they stayed true to their first musical loves" lio - crashinin.com

Additional Info ::comps:: Clairecords - testtones 1.1:: LosingToday Issue #4 cd:: soon 'Dolphins in a Golden Shell' Alison Records comp. to aid european flood victims:: more in the works::

Location Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - USA

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