High.

BIOGRAPHY

Around the tucked-away town of Boonton, NJ in 2021, Christian Castan (vocals/ guitar), Bridget Bakie (bass/vocals), Jack Miller (drums), and Danny Zavala (guitar) formed High. Creative nucleus Christian Castan and Bridget Bakie met while playing the DIY and college circuit around New Jersey building Bakie’s reputation as “The Queen of The Quarter Note,” and Castan’s profile as an unforgettable guitarist. After playing in a band together, the two longed for a project that would be their sole creative focus and could tour as far and wide as possible. A few weeks and two practices after their formation, the band began playing shows around the tristate DIY circuit after their proper NYC debut at Saint Vitus.  

Come Back Down's first sessions started in June 2023 when the band and producer Matthew Molnar decamped to the Greenpoint studio of Patrick Wimberly (Chairlift) to test new material with engineer Sam Darwish. The band also brought the tracks to Shane Furst and his Cloud Factory Studios to review their recent work and begin the next stages of completion. That fall, the band took a break from the sessions to do a week long tour with Austin's STAB as well as supporting several tour dates with longtime heroes DIIV. Filling out their schedule were opening dates for Glare, Lowertown and A Place To Bury Strangers, as well as a Midwest run with Chicago band Smut. After nationwide shows, the band finished the EP with Jeff Ziegler at his Uniform Recording in Philly, whose work on Nothing.'s seminal record Guilty of Everything greatly inspired the group.