Out of the darkness comes light

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Make Model are the catchiest musical collective to come out of Glasgow since Franz Ferdinand. File them next to your Arcade Fire and Broken Social Scene CDs, but theirs is a sharper, poppier sound. Lewis Gale and Gordon Skene started playing together after Gale's younger brother died; the result of their therapeutic partnership is unashamedly emotional, orchestral pop.

After being joined by four friends, they were promptly snapped up by EMI, and the band sharpened their raw demos into pop thunderbolts. "The LSB", the first single to be lifted from their forthcoming debut album, is released on 14 April and the band are on tour now. Sonia Zhuravlyova

nme.com

"The buzz around Glasgow's Make Model is getting pretty noisy. So much so, in fact, that if you cup your ear to the ground you can actually hear the little bugs saying 'They're the British Arcade Fire' between grass chomps."

femalefirst.

co.uk

"'The LSB' is a raucous, shout-along crowd-rouser, expressing and releasing any number of social and/or personal frustrations. At the heart of it, this song goes straight for the jugular - it's an inescapably involving track."

gigwise.com "Make Model are all messy hair, charity shop clothes and a youthful nervousness matching an eagerness to please. All this fades away into some wonderful shining gems of songs carried out through a fantastic triple guitar, triple vocal attack."

skinnymag.

co.uk"The British media's obligatory annual search for 'the new this' and 'the next big that' has been kind to Make Model. Broken Social Scene and Arcade Fire are two names that have been bandied about almost habitually."

krugermagazine.com

"I don't like Arcade Fire much at all. That surely means the first major release from Scottish band Make Model won't wash with me either. But, as usual, I am wrong. 'The Was' is a cute introduction to a band tipped for big things in 2008."

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