alomusic.com VS.

dangerbirdrecords.com

The Frights may have started out as a joke but there's nothing funny about the unexpected rise they've experienced over the past three years. It all started when this group of high school friends—guitarist/vocalist Mikey Carnevale, drummer Marc Finn and bassist Richard Dotson—put together a six-song, 30-minute set and booked a show for fun. What they didn't bank on was the fact that someone in the audience would enjoy it so much that they would want to release music immediately. "We kind of became a band by mistake," Carnevale admits. Over the next few years the group released two well-received EPs and a full-length before teaming up with Dangerbird Records who are proud to be releasing the fuzz-drenched rock act's second full length, You're Are Going To Hate This, an album that shows that the group have evolved not only into a legitimate act but one that seems to have no limit to their potential. In order to fully realize these songs, the group essentially harassed FIDLAR frontman Zac Carper until he finally came up with the idea to produce a few songs for The Frights. "We had played a couple of shows with FIDLAR and Mike would persistently email the band asking to take us on tour and Zac eventually responded and said he had listened to our songs and wanted to see if we would be open to having him produce some recordings," Dotson explains. "At first we thought it would be a few songs or a demo but we somehow convinced him to do the whole record," he adds with a laugh. "It was really just a case of annoying him until he had no other choice." Finn could only spend a limited amount of time in the studio so after he flew out and tracked his drums the remaining members had months to go into the studio and add their own parts to these songs, which slowly began to come alive as they transitioned from sonic blueprints into something more tangible. The group had four months to make You Are Going To Hate This, far more time than they had ever had in the past so Carper had