Brothers Carrick and Finn Moore Gerety founded the group in the early 1990s with David Benjamin and Matt Fishbeck; they all met as students at
Harvard University. The Geretys are the sons of former
Trinity College and
Amherst College president
Tom Gerety. While their early work was heavily indebted to
indie rock musical artists such as
Pavement, they began moving toward more of a power pop sound in the mid-1990s; reviewers also noted influences from 1980s-era musicians signed to
Rough Trade and
K Records. They signed with Massachusetts-based Sealed Fate Records, run by Eric Masunaga of the Dambuilders, The
New York Times wrote of the band, "the band's retro garage pop and its bowl haircuts quickly grow on you." They appeared on
KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic later that year. The band released four albums in five years, a pace of recording that was intentionally accelerated; the group noted that groups of the 1960s and 1970s released albums much more quickly, and believed it was unnecessary for groups to take two years or more to record and market an album, as was more common in the 1990s.
Far Places, their follow-up to
Push Kings, arrived in mid-1998. Switching to Rebbel Records, they released another self-titled album in 2000. Their fourth album,
Feel No Fade, arrived in late 2001, and received a scathing review by
Alison Fields of
Pitchfork Media. By the end of 2001 the group had disbanded. Carrick Moore Gerety later went on to join
Everybody Else, and Fishbeck later formed
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