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As auspicious as Caracas may be as the origin of the next big thing, model viola frontman Cesar Inserny might have had an initial feeling from getting off the plane that he was taking a step down. The following two years would be interesting, scary, depressing and very alien to him, but crystallized his idea, which led to the most inventive and accessible music that the city he lived in would hear for a long time. The band's chemistry was forever static and lineup changes were a natural consequence. After a few of them, things settled into a chemistry of natural opposites when he recruited keyboardist Justin Burrow, a reserved and artistic aficionado of analog melodies, and Derek Andersen, a drunken self-absorbed drama-queen singer for some promising bands that, tired of the antipathy directed toward him as a frontman changed his aspiration to that of a sideman in his favorite band. The normal tendency in this day and age would have been self-appointed alienation, moodiness, and self-indulgence (bedroom-sulking indie anthems) but Model Viola's music is not only the equal of its roots, it comes from influences grounded in surmounting circumstance enough to appreciate what's around you. It has more to do with enjoying life.
Asked for favorites, the band would probably volunteer the Jesus & Mary Chain (inserny), Placebo, U2 and Subcircus (Andersen), the Judy's, the Smiths and the Cure (Burrow). Yet comparisons have ranged from something more along the lines of Depeche Mode, Garbage, Death in Vegas, Moby, Ash, the Chemical Brothers, or exterminator era Primal Scream. None of these is quite the sound they were going for at the time, but the spontaneity of their differences and their competitiveness brings it's own sound that separates them from what they listen to. Cesar dubs the genre "Pop/electro/rock", and expect it to be a major genre in very few years. "Underground movements and top 40 trends come and go in music, the important thing is always the song, while movements are more about the style."
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| It has been said that it sounds a little bit like U2. | |
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| Sexual agression, frustation, addictive behavior. That's what we all get from Houston. Crazy town, crazy people. We had to cut the ending cause we use a sample from a movie when we play it live. And I don't even know what movie it is! | |
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| Poppy Rock. |
CD: Putas Songs
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