| All Artists: Ex Models Title: Other Mathematics Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Ace Fu Records/Emi Release Date: 5/7/2001 Genres: Alternative Rock, Rock Styles: Hardcore & Punk, Indie & Lo-Fi, New Wave & Post-Punk Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 066067301221 |
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 | Ex Models Other Mathematics Genres: Alternative Rock, Rock The Ex Models' debut, Other Mathematics, opens with a scream, or, more specifically, a yelp, as vocalist Shahin Motia salutes Devo and spasms frenetically through 13 songs in 24 minutes. Whether Ex Models mean to refer ... more » |
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Amazon.com The Ex Models' debut, Other Mathematics, opens with a scream, or, more specifically, a yelp, as vocalist Shahin Motia salutes Devo and spasms frenetically through 13 songs in 24 minutes. Whether Ex Models mean to refer to math rock in the album title or not (ostensibly the hyperaccurate post-punk/post-rock guitar genre that boasts off-kilter rhythms and tangled guitar lines), it's funny which parts of math rock Ex Models appropriate--the good ones. Spiced with Gang of Four, Wire, Talking Heads, Shellac, and lots of attitude, Other Mathematics is a nonstop barrage of torrential riff bursting, in which rock-nerd, verge-of-Tourette's vocals whoop and holler. Crisp, immaculate drumming commands both guitars' sharp edges--from their combative knot tying to their more cooperative machine gun blast antisolos--jettisoning the songs to ecstatic pogo-dancing heights and rapturous conclusions. With the swagger of Jon Spencer and the energy and wit of Mark Mothersbaugh or a young David Byrne, Motia conducts the band through a series of vector-based algorithmic proofs on this thoroughly fresh love letter to early punk and new wave pioneers--and no one in this four-piece misses a cue to testify. --Cyndi Elliott Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsAwesome ben | melb australia | 03/01/2003 (5 out of 5 stars) "This album rocks. Have had it for a while and never get sick of it. Think Gang of Four, Wire, Talking Heads even. Best tracks are 'Supersex', 'It's on Television' and 'Girlfriend is Worse'. With jarring tempo changes and vocals like a cat dragging under a freight train this album scratches a dirty key down the side of David Byrne's limousine." 1&1&1 do NOT equal 3 S. L. Landman | Minneapolis, MN | 03/16/2004 (5 out of 5 stars) "Heard these guys for the first time while flying down the FDR in NYC. They were doing a live show on a local radio station and I was BLOWN AWAY. I couldn't find this album soon enough. NOBODY knew who these guys were when I was trying to find OTHER MATHEMATICS. Eventually found it in an "Other Music" in Boston and ended up seeing them in Philly. NO ONE puts on a show like these guys. THE LIARS were supposed to open up for them, but couldn't make it last minute, so they tried to lengthen their show. Unfortunately, one of their guitar amps all but melted after the first two songs. They asked if anyone in the crowd had an extra Mesa Boogie in their cars. The rest of the set was with only one guitar (and bass and drums, of course). Still a HELLUVA' show!!! How to describe the album? I wrote a review for it once that did it NO justice. In short, it's like a fusion of the most abrasive, early XTC, guitar wise, with smatterings of DEVO (which also can be applied to the vocal style). But nice 'n' HARD!! And time signatures??? Being a drummer, I HAD to tell their's after the gig that I have no idea where they're going sometimes on these songs, as far as rhythm goes. "Tell you the truth. We really don't either." BUY THIS ALBUM if you have a single bone in your body that appreciates where the future of music is!!!"
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