As Fast As is an alternative rock band from Portland, Maine, which includes former Rustic Overtones keyboardist Spencer Albee, who along with Haché Horchatta and Zach Jones were members of the power pop group Rocktopus. Their debut album, Open Letter to the Damned was released on Octone Records in May, 2006. The album's hit song "Florida Sunshine" was played on an episode of CSI: Miami, as well as the promotional advertisements for the series. As Fast As left Octone Records due to "a difference in creative vision." On March 11, 2008, the band released Destroy the Plastique Man independently. The band went on hiatus in August 2008. Though the band are still technically on hiatus and Albee is busy with his new project Spencer and the School Spirit Mafia, the band reformed for a one-off concert in Portland, Maine's "The Asylum" on July 18, 2009 and released a new album, AFA For Effort on June 23. |