American Hi‐Fi by American Hi-Fi

American Hi-Fi, the Boston band's debut album, came out on Island on February 27, 2001. Stacy Jones, who had drummed in Veruca Salt and Letters to Cleo, started the group in 1998, and when he flew to Maui, Hawaii that year to play drums on Nina Gordon's first solo album, the rest of the band followed him out and made this record with producer Bob Rock.

With Jones out front on vocals and rhythm guitar, it's sugar-rush pop-punk and power pop, loud, bright and grinning, the kind of thing that drew comparisons to Blink-182, Weezer and Foo Fighters. Critics singled out the guitar work. "Flavor of the Weak", the lead single, is the keeper, a snotty, hook-loaded blast of big guitars, and "Another Perfect Day" followed it later in the year. They hit the road with Our Lady Peace and Eve 6 afterward, and the album sold more than 750,000 copies that year.

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