Other Mathematics

Ex Models | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 7, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Ace Fu Records/Emi
• ASIN: B00005EBPW
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #427,058 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Possibly Brilliant., November 8, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: Other Mathematics (Audio CD)

This isn't my type of music but I can't get enough of it. I don't pretend to understand the Ex-Models' many influences (though Talking Heads, Wire, Gang Of Four come to mind) but I do understand that musically they're off-the-hook creative. Harmonically, rhythmically, social comentarically they're in a league of their own. Their songs are hyper kinetic, always changing, completely and solidly fresh.

All tracks scream through the excellent recording, with the possible exception of "orbital & nuclear," which is insturmentally too sparse to be relevant to the subject matter.

I can only imagine that this band gives a wicked live show, with head-man Shahin Motia bobbing about like a lunatic David Byrne. Hope to see them in concert some day -- until then I'll be content with playing this LOUD enough to make my ear drums bleed.

A definite buy for anyone who loves punk, is a punk, or at one point met a punk.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars awesome, March 1, 2003

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ben (melb australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Other Mathematics (Audio CD)

This album rocks. Have had it for a while and never get sick of it. Think Gang of Four, Wire, Talking Heads even. Best tracks are 'Supersex', 'It's on Television' and 'Girlfriend is Worse'. With jarring tempo changes and vocals like a cat dragging under a freight train this album scratches a dirty key down the side of David Byrne's limousine.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 1&1&1 do NOT equal 3, March 15, 2004

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S. L. Landman "Sad Giraffe" (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Other Mathematics (Audio CD)

Heard these guys for the first time while flying down the FDR in NYC. They were doing a live show on a local radio station and I was BLOWN AWAY. I couldn't find this album soon enough. NOBODY knew who these guys were when I was trying to find OTHER MATHEMATICS. Eventually found it in an "Other Music" in Boston and ended up seeing them in Philly. NO ONE puts on a show like these guys. THE LIARS were supposed to open up for them, but couldn't make it last minute, so they tried to lengthen their show. Unfortunately, one of their guitar amps all but melted after the first two songs. They asked if anyone in the crowd had an extra Mesa Boogie in their cars. The rest of the set was with only one guitar (and bass and drums, of course). Still a HELLUVA' show!!!

How to describe the album? I wrote a review for it once that did it NO justice. In short, it's like a fusion of the most abrasive, early XTC, guitar wise, with smatterings of DEVO (which also can be applied to the vocal style). But nice 'n' HARD!! And time signatures??? Being a drummer, I HAD to tell their's after the gig that I have no idea where they're going sometimes on these songs, as far as rhythm goes. "Tell you the truth. We really don't either."

BUY THIS ALBUM if you have a single bone in your body that appreciates where the future of music is!!!