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Published: 17 April 2008

A Model made for success

PREVIEW - MAKE MODEL
Camden Crawl

FRESHLY back from the SXSW music festival in Texas and currently touring through the UK and Europe, Glaswegian sextet Make Model are pretty new to the scene but definitely one to watch.
Their first single, LSB, is due to be released on April 21 and is full of the kind of stomping beats and shouts the band describe as a pop thunderstorm.
Made up of former members of Carson, Dance Lazarus Dance and Fickle Public, the band come from an artistic music scene but took the decision to become deliberately more accessible.
Their gigs have a reputation for descending into crazed shoutalongs and the group have already played big festivals such as T in the Park, Reading and Leeds.
Dubbed the British answer to Arcade Fire, the band are heavily influenced by Canadian rock and seem to like the idea of music therapy.
There’s something pretty twee about the idea of lifting people up by sharing your problems with them, but somehow it works.
One of their tracks, Glasgow’s Number One Most Wanted, is a marching band number recorded by four of the band members cooped up in a room and smashing everything they could find as hard as they could while telling us, tail between legs, about one member’s old habit of pinching people’s phones at work.
When they’re not nicking phones, the band knock out a pretty diverse mix of tunes. Some of the tracks could have fallen off a soundtrack to Indiana Jones; others the product of walloping any old guitar and synth they could find hanging around in a studio.
Something’s clearly working though. Catch them now before they start touring with the Fratellis.

JULIA PHILLIPS
www.thecamdencrawl.com

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