Akron Ohio’s Houseguest released its first full-length album last Spring. Titled High Strangeness, it is the second release on Audio Eagle records, the label owned and operated by Patrick Carney of the Black Keys. Their next release is scheduled for April 2008.
“Houseguest is Akron, Ohio’s band du jour. Deservedly so… while the abandon of their stage presence is something to behold, what they are capable of committing in the studio is staggeringly beautiful, skewed pop.” 8/10 – Pop Matters
“Houseguest is simply the best pop band in the country.” – McSweeney’s
“Houseguest’s… music that’s relentlessly catchy and smart, tight but jittery, muscle toned but not bulging… wowing you with perfect pop rock” – Columbus Alive
“the catchiest guitar pop record my ears have heard in years” – Rock Cleveland
“Houseguest’s pop shuffles and sashays with an off-kilter grace, like a defiant drunk finding his way home. Guitars shamble and rumble with repressed power, rising in hooky swells that call to mind Guided by Voices, Beat Happening, and the Feelies.” – Cleveland Scene
“There’s a fine line between sounding intelligent and sounding grating, particularly when lyrics are involved, but Houseguest soft-peddle the jokes and, what’s perhaps more important, the irony. The most obvious precedent is Kurt Wagner’s work in Lambchop – all bemusement and understated intelligence.” – Dusted