Secret Stars

While active in the emo outfit Karate, singer and guitarist Geoff Farina joined forces with his closest companion Jodi Buonanno in the middle of 1993 to establish the Boston-rooted lo-fi folk-pop pair known as the Secret Stars. Envisioned primarily as a persistent artistic endeavor instead of a conventional group, the duo put out their self-titled first cassette independently during 1994 before issuing the same recordings via Shrimper the year after. With Farina dedicating the majority of the mid-1990s to his commitments in Karate, the Secret Stars produced no further output until the appearance of their LP Genealogies in 1998, followed later in that year by the seven-inch single "Abner Louima."