House & Parish: One, One-Thousand

Rock pedigrees can be misleading, particularly

when musicians are eager to work outside of the musical templates they're known

for. So it goes with House & Parish, which features former members of The

Promise Ring, Texas Is The Reason, The Gloria Record, and The Love Scene. The

band's debut EP, One, One-Thousand, avoids the emo/punk that House & Parish's

members helped define a decade ago; instead, it embraces gauzy Britpop that

swirls around John Herguth's breathy vocals. House & Parish certainly plays

it well, but the songs tend to blur together, a red flag for a six-track EP.

The closing song, "Over/Out," recalls The Church circa "Under The Milky Way,"

though any song could have appeared on Dave Kendall-era 120 Minutes. Although One,

One-Thousand

is pleasant enough, House & Parish still needs time to put its own, more

interesting stamp on the style.