The High Strung

The Detroit-born quartet High Strung have a gift for nervy, agitated melodies that get under
your skin as much as they make you hum along. There's a vague discomfort about life in
general on These Are Good Times, but it's expressed in a joyful, uptight, cymbal-bashing
sound that borrows as much from the Motor City's recent garage-rock scene as from the
Beatles, whose "She Said, She Said" is riff-checked in "Throwaway." The New W... More >