While searching MySpace for local music — as I do from time to time — I stumbled across Roman Holiday and was promptly knocked for a loop. Theirs is a slick indie rock sound so pristine, so flawless, that it quite frankly made me upset. Making matters worse is the band’s baffling history:  They’ve been together just barely a year, and before that the members didn’t really know each other. Roman Holiday’s first few months together were spent writing and recording their startlingly professional EP, and only after that did they start performing. The group was assembled with the help of a producer.

It’s all so fishy.

Having spoken with the band, however, I now know they didn’t set out to ruin my day.

“I [work] at a recording studio here in Tacoma called Pacific Studios,” says frontman Shane Lance. “Myself and the owner had talked about putting a project together, for the last few years. He brought this group of guys in and [we] jammed and it just felt like a right fit.”

It’s starting to make more sense.

“I think it’s put us under a bit of a greenhouse, musically,” Lance says. “Being able to record every practice and the fact that the studio is kind of our home … It’s allowed us to grow and become what we are before we present it to people.”

To be succinct, Roman Holiday is lucky enough to have happened upon a position where the band can completely and totally work out the kinks before anyone lays eyes on them — as opposed to a band finding itself through performance.

Roman Holiday will attest, however, to the quality of its live show. “If we can’t replicate it live, then we’re not going to put it out,” says Lance.

If that’s the case, then this is an exciting band. For all the merits of Roman Holiday’s clean production and pitch-perfect indie-ness, this giant music may be best experienced live, with fists pumping in air.

[The Harmon Hub, Saturday, Sept. 12, 9 p.m., no cover, all ages, 203 Tacoma Ave. S., Tacoma, 253.683.4606]