Biography of The Click 5

It\'s been said that you can tell a lot about people by looking at the company they keep. So what, then, could you say about a band that\'s collaborated with members of Kiss, Fountains of Wayne and The Cars, opened for Alanis Morissette and Ashlee Simpson and honed their craft at Berklee School of Music? Well, you could say they\'re conversant in all 57 varieties of pop-rock. You could say they\'re as unlikely to be pigeonholed as any band around. Or you could simply say \"yeah!\" as you pop on Greetings From Imrie House, the Lava Records debut from The Click Five, the Boston-based quintet that\'s managed to grab all the brass rings mentioned above ? all in less than two years together. \"We all love melodies,\" says bassist Ethan Mentzer. \"If I can\'t sing it, I\'m not crazy about it. I like songs that are so damn catchy that you wake up in the morning with them in your head. When I started playing the guitar at age 12, I wanted to listen to music where you could really hear the guitar ? bands like Green Day and Weezer and Stone Temple Pilots became my favorites, so when the direction of this band started going towards rock, even though the songs were pop, it only felt natural.\" Greetings From Imrie House collects 11 timeless power-pop confections, odes to both the good, clean and naughtily winking sorts of fun. They capture the former in the sunny tones of the artfully sleek first single \"Just The Girl,\" and the shimmering \"Catch Your Wave\" (which layers Beach Boys-styled harmonies atop a contagiously jittery new wave melody) and dive into the latter on the young lovers lust-fest \"Friday Night.\" The quintet ? none of who is older than 23 ? stands out from the current pop pack on several levels. First, there are those snappy suits (a look that dates back to the days of playing mod covers during off-time at Berklee). The more important distinctions, however, come in the aural realm ? in the ringing five-part harmonies that vein just about every song, and in the alternately peppy and atmospheric keyboard parts contributed by Ben Romans. \"I\'m a keyboard player trapped in a guitar player\'s body,\" he laughs. \"I think it\'s almost comical what we do with keyboards, maybe a little off the wall. It may shadow a band like The Cars or something and we\'re aware of that, but in the making of this album, we got introduced to a lot of really cool stuff from around 1977-82 that we really weren\'t aware of before.\" Quick learning and stellar instincts earned The Click Five ? originally known as The Click ? the endorsement of several musicians who were active during that golden era, notably Paul Stanley of Kiss, who co-wrote the strutting \"Angel to You (Devil To Me)\" with Romans, and Elliott Easton of The Cars, who blazes through the guitar solo on the track.

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