Backstory: Deacon Hill started life as a solo project for guitarist/vocalist Deacon (born Tyler) Hill. But when he tapped drummer Carlos Turcios to help him record his album Parameterized Dissociation, the band began to grow, with bassist Tejas Amaya joining soon after. “[Turcios] heard the end product and decided, ‘Let’s just play it live,’ It was an idea in my head for so long. I’d never heard it out loud, and it had never been pieced together,” Hill says. “But he was the one to come to me and say, ‘This is something worthwhile.’”

Sound: At first listen, Deacon Hill seems to channel the sonic minimalism of the Velvet Underground, but that’s not the full story. “It was to fool people into it,” Hill admits, seated atop a speaker inside Mad Dog Vibes Rehearsal Studios. “The first song [“Eyes Adjust”] is basically a V.U. demo. It was supposed to make you think that, then everything comes from everywhere later on in the album.” Hill, who applies a distinct deadpan to most tracks, can’t pinpoint exactly what has influenced him most, but says, “It’s more Jimi Hendrix than anything else.”

Discovering Deacon: “Don’t think, just listen to fuzz guitar” is the unofficial slogan of Deacon Hill. “Nobody does fuzz music like us,” Hill says, gripping his Gretsch hollow body guitar, eyes on the fuzz distortion pedals on the floor. “I can’t imagine my guitar sounding like anything else. I also have special pedals I’ve made to mimic the first fuzzes ever made.” Parameterized Dissociation unfurls as a growling tape of fuzz-toned rock ’n’ roll. During “The Invisible Man,” Hill’s guitar speaks to him and through him. His entire body jerks and twitches, the instrument vibrating against his chest as he completes his downstrokes. The energy during the band’s first practice in months is kinetic. “When I came in, I just wanted to add as much crunch and as much distortion as I could,” Amaya says of his bass playing. Hill laughs. “Or as much as the sound guy will let you.”

Up Next: Deacon Hill will play tracks from Parameterized Dissociation at Red Dwarf on July 8, and Hill says he plans to shop the album around to record labels for release.

DEACON HILL Opening for Joan of Arkansas with Goodbye Ranger, July 8, 9 p.m., free. Red Dwarf, eventbrite.com.