CAMBRIDGE: The Blue Moon

Friday 13th November, 2015

8:00pm

Event information

A launch party for Model Village's new album (their first on LP), "Healing Centre", on its actual day of release!

MODEL VILLAGE
Formed in the summer of 2008, Model Village write songs that are confident, mature and utterly memorable at their core. The band’s mix of jangly guitars, boy-girl harmonies, upbeat melodies and downbeat lyrics sit somewhere in the niche between Belle & Sebastian and The Promise Ring, if reviewers are to be believed.

Model Village's third album, “Healing Centre” strives to unite all forms of pop music into a melodic, unpretentious whole. Influenced by Jim O’Rourke, Prefab Sprout, Yo La Tengo, Steely Dan, Red House Painters, and Camera Obscura, the group pull the threads together into their most compelling record to date, their first full-length with vocalist Lily Somerville.

Conceived at a time when almost the entire group were trying to change various frustrating aspects of their lives, the songs on “Healing Centre” encapsulate a range of responses to disheartening situations. One the one hand, disappointment, regret, and resentment all feature, but hope, relief, and the anticipation of escape break through. With repeated doses of bathos and black humour; subjects as diverse as creepy internet dating, being let down by friends, dementia, crap films, nostalgia, and railing at the blindly self-obsessed, are set to almost incongruously upbeat, jangly guitar riffs and tight, driving unfussy rhythms, finished off with a smidgen of sophistipop keyboards.

“Healing Centre”, a name taken from one of Cambridge’s most joyless-looking buildings, was mostly recorded in London’s only floating recording studio, Lightship95, moored at the mouth of the River Lea.

Consciously more groove-orientated than Model Village’s previous records, “Healing Centre” is a set of smart commuter pop gems with just that bit more grit and potency than their contemporaries can offer.
https://modelvillage.bandcamp.com/
http://modelvillagethepopgroup.tumblr.com/

CHORUSGIRL
Chorusgirl make noisepop, blending the sounds of Lush, the Cure, The Breeders, Pulp, the Bangles, surf, girl groups, melodies, dirt, jangle and noise into a swirling & shimmering mix that spins your head until you’re dizzy. The lyrics are personal, delicate and angry, about losing and giving up, but all of that heartache and anger is layered underneath enough noisy rubble and happy fizz.

The band is Silvi Wersing’s brain child and the name references the fact that she spent years being a bassist to others’ dreams, until deciding that introverts and chorus girls could and perhaps should front their own shows. She started writing songs and recruited her friends to her new London-based venture at the start of 2014: Caroline on guitar, Udo on bass and Mike on drums. Diogo replaced Caroline as a guitarist in the summer of 2014, but Caroline still lends her beautiful vocals to occasional live duets with Silvi.

Their debut, eponymous album is also released on the 13th of Nov, on the ever-reliable Fortuna Pop! Records label.
http://chorusgirl.co.uk/

BISCUITS FOR BEARS
Originators of the brutepop genre, Cambridge's Biscuits For Bears are newly stripped down to a slick pop machine in the trio format. Lyrically cutting and melodically effervescent, you should file them in between Elvis Costello, Half Man Half Biscuit, and Big Star.
https://biscuitsforbears.bandcamp.com/

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