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Healing Centre

by Model Village

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Frederic Bezies Another bubble of sweetness from Model Village.

Reminds me the beginning of Belle and Sebastian. Just the greatest way to start a day :)

Too bad there is no CD version... Well :] Favorite track: Claude Loves Marcel.
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Sunlight 03:53
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Pick & Mix 03:11
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Sorry 03:30
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Claude Loves Marcel 04:01
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Time To Share (free) 04:22
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Family Restaurant 04:06
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Junction 30 03:07
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Funny Things 04:01
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Stop The Clocks 03:05
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It Will Be Over Soon 04:43

about

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.

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released November 13, 2015

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We are Model Village, some kind of pop group from South-ish East-ish England with a form book as long as your arm where previous bands are concerned. None of that matters now though, so come and revel in the Model Village of the future.

Lily, Dan, Ian, Kenny, and Matt are the current members of the residents’ committee. ... more

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