Make Model - The LSB
ARTIST........: Make Model
TITLE.........: The LSB
LABEL.........: EMI Records
URL...........: http://www.makemodel.co.uk/
GENRE.........: Indie
QUALITY:......: 200 kbps avg/ 44100Hz / Joint Stereo
RIP DATE......: 2008-03-04
RELEASE DATE..: 2008-00-00
Tracklist:
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01. The LSB (Radio Edit) 3:51
02. The LSB (Instrumental) 4:43
03. The LSB (Phones Latino Mix) 4:56
04. The LSB (FOUND'S Broken Ground Remix) 5:08
Total 18:38
Release Notes:
"Make Model make songs with Cathedral-sized choruses... straight-arrowed, epic
alt.pop gems" û The Fly
"Like Pavement mainlining Cheap Trick, this six-piece are being babbled about by
everyone at the moment" û NME
"Exuberant, happy, male-female chaos pop" û Guardian
"These Glaswegians justify the fuss" û Sunday Times Culture
Since the A&R furor surrounding their discovery kicked off, and the low key
release of their debut single last July, Glasgow 6 piece Make Model have been
quietly, but resolutely, setting themselves up as one of the most promising UK
acts of 2008. Having spent the past six months hard at work in the studio
getting to grip with their collective talents, crafting raw demos into an
arsenal of pop thunderstorms, future greatness. nay success, seems eerily ripe
for the picking. The album is currently-being-- finished off under the eye of
Rich Costey (Franz Ferdinand, Muse, Block Party). The first official single to
be lifted from their debut long player, 'The LSB' is released on April 141h.
Sonically at least, 'The LSB' is an aggressive pop gleamer. Charged with
thumping, Flaming Lips-esque flair. and raised on a diet of limited edition LCD
Soundsystem, Stereolab, and Kompakt records...it's somehow ended up as the most
ludicrously catchy artschool indie to have come out of Glasgow since Franz
Ferdinand.
Lyrically however, where Make Model's darker elements reside, it touches upon
some potentially contentious subject matter:- 'The LSB' is something of a
discourse on some inescapable social ills, forcefully spotlighting the yellow
streak running down the spine of an ASBO generation. The track's moniker, it is
said, stands for `Less Said the Better'. It's central maxim, and chorus being 'I
don't want them hanging around / I don't need them bringing me down'.
"It was one of the first ones we wrote," says Gordon, "It was a good
representation of us, it sounded quite rocking. It's about these kids that used
to hang out in the hallway at Lewis' house when they were bunking off from
school. They were acting hard. but as soon as he'd stick his head out of the
door they'd all scarper."
Live, quite rightly, it's a raucous, shout-along, crowd-rouser, expressing and
releasing any number of social and/or personal frustrations. At the heart of it,
'The LSB' goes straight for the jugular û it's an inescapably involving track.