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Model Staggs [EP]

Model Staggs featured on our launch mixtape, and how we could we let much more time pass without reviewing their fabulous EP? They've also managed to secure a slot at Playfest, a local festival in Norfolk with quite an impressive line-up. Well worth checking out! Download the EP below for free!

<a href="http://modelstaggs.bandcamp.com/album/model-staggs-ep" data-mce-href="http://modelstaggs.bandcamp.com/album/model-staggs-ep">MODEL STAGGS [EP] by MODEL STAGGS</a>

‘Self-released, Self-recorded, Self-produced. In fact, Self-everything’ is a descriptive phase not common in today’s contemporary music scene, but for Tom Miller and Ash Allerton (Model Staggs) being ‘self-everything’ is extremely familiar.

Model Staggs combine Maccabees-esque melodies and XX styled vocals to produce a powerful, breathtaking sound in an awe inspiring minimalistic way.

The duo’s first track from their self titled debut EP, ‘Magnetic People’, is laden with reverb goodness, after describing their sound as ‘warping’ my anticipation quickly grew and my expectations were thoroughly exceeded upon hearing it. The minimalistic vibe in this track is somewhat overwhelming for a two-piece; the expansive sound they created is unexpected but indefinitely not unloved. This track compliments the EP beautifully and sets the striking atmosphere for the following songs.

‘Get the Gold’ summons the thought of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney (The Black Keys) in the post ‘Brothers’ days, with its stabbing yet somewhat ambient guitar parts and beautifully melodic drums. The similar expansive and reverberating guitar riffs are entrenched throughout this song and they provide a clear backbone to the sound.

The third of three, ‘Thunder’, shows similar characteristics to the previous pieces but it also incorporates some unfamiliar and exciting electronic voicings. Resembling the sounds of Bombay Bicycle Clubs latest in the form of ‘A Different Kind of Fix’ this track is sure to impress. The introductions of ambient dub-like sounds are heavily welcomed and this newly broken ground is hopefully a sample of what is later to come from Model Staggs.

I am highly optimistic of these guys; their sound is minimal but powerful and gloriously refreshing. In this modern world of auto-tuned voices, and overly vulgar lyrics and fashion it’s comforting to find bands like Model Staggs keeping music raw and inspiring, but most of all, alive.

This EP has been given the rating of Tree. (check below to see what we're talking about!)

Rating system: Appalling- Root, Adequate- Shrub, Ok- Flower, Good- Tree, Awesome- Forest

Available to download for free! Here.

Reviewed by Howard Middleton

If you want to catch Model Staggs before then, they're playing the LP bar in Bury St Edmunds on the 24th May with other Cambridge group, Ill Murray. http://www.facebook.com/events/394971960532771/  

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