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have spent the past two years earning their reputation as the no wave champions of the new New York underground, as acknowledged by most any magazine or newspaper that’s ever witnessed their deafeningly shrill, spastic, don’t-blink-or–you-might miss-three-songs live performances. Zoo Psychology is their latest offering; fifteen tracks replete with ecstatic wailing and ruling recorded by the legendary New York no wave guru Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, Lydia Lunch, John Zorn, Boss Hog, US Maple, etc) and mastered by Fred Kevorkian (White Stripes). Zoo Psychology is scheduled for U.S. and European release in May 2003 from frenchkiss records and Southern distribution. It is a document of the band’s transformation from the mechanical, critically acclaimed post punk minimalism of 2001’s Other Mathematics (Ace Fu Records LP), past the paroxysmal grind of 2002’s untitled "Pink" split EP (My Pal God Records), and into the coil of nervous sexual energy that it is today. While critics elaborate on frantic, deconstructed song structures, perverse manipulation of stringed instruments, and wanton abuse of the human voice, Ex Models have become known in musical circles as "every band’s favorite band"; the demand by their peers to see what Alternative Press Magazine calls, "a unique combination of balls and irreverence" has landed them slots from San Diego to Glasgow with everyone from Pretty Girls Make Graves to Yeah Yeah Yeahs. "[These] Brooklyn noise-wavers wild out like the Minutemen on chewable Ritalin… excellent." Spin "As if driving you through a labyrinth in a high speed bumper car, Ex Models cause severe whiplash through their agitated music. Devo singer Mark Mothersbaugh may be scoring TV shows and movies, but Ex Model’s trio of singers have taken his former teachings and applied them to a different template…ripe with distinctive character and verve." Alternative Press "…seizing and stretching the legacy of CBGB in its heyday: rock that’s smart, skeletal and recklessly ambitious, eager to provide an antidote to synthetic pop and self-important mainstream rock." The New York Times "The New York renaissance may have turned out some commendably classic-sounding bands, but, as ever, it’s the weirder groups frozen in the city spotlight that turn out to be the most interesting… Big Apple vogue might have led us to the Ex Models, but this ain’t no pretty boy fashion thing. This is New York evolution at work." NME "like Devo being chased by a mountain lion, Ex Models breathlessly stutter out 13 post punk epithets that snap and sting like yanked rubberbands. Shahin Motia undulates wildly, swift-kicking his larynx into the stratosphere while Shah Motia knits furious guitar lines on the ground below... an adrenaline shot: desperate measures for desperate times." -Magnet "the (Ex Models’) record triumphs on the merits of its choppy, frantic vocals and art-damaged guitars." Time Out NY "With their self-referential approach to rock & roll ideology, the music of the Ex Models is as much a commentary on the previous chapters of punk rock history as it is a glimpse of the forthcoming trends in the fusion of post-rock and post-punk." All Music Guide Back from playing a handful of sold out shows in the U.K., Ex Models will be touring to promote "Zoo Psychology" in the United States in April, supporting Yeah Yeah Yeahs on the east coast, and packaging with Holy Molar (members of the Locust/Get Hustle on 31G) and the legendary XBXRX on the west coast. They will be returning to the U.K. and Europe in June. |
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