Buzz Sound: Force Model

Photo by Izzy Johnson

Artist: Force Model, the trio of vocalist and guitarist Edie Vogel, bassist Maxwell Moore, and drummer Ken Arimura

Location: Los Angeles, CA

Buzz: It feels like another lifetime ago where hardcore and noise rock used to be weirder for the better, and not only that, but it was the norm. The Blood Brothers. The Locust. Pretty Girls Make Graves. At the Drive-In. These Arms Are Snakes. Just to name a few. Everyone plays it so safe nowadays even when they serve up something solid. Force Model aren’t falling in line with any of that, as they’re a reminder of that rare thrill in letting your full freak flag fly in both the studio and the pit you unleash your outsider inhibitions in. With the Los Angeles trio’s debut album, Found Camera, there’s a snapshot of some ghosts from those past scenes haunting the energy of their flash footage while also filtering in more vivid portraits of ’90s post-hardcore intellectualism and their locale’s overheated DIY punk spaces. Vocalist Edie Vogel — hellbent on embracing darker turns of emotion in pure joy — is a natural master of the chaos they reap where spiral guitars swoop around hook-driven choruses, and it’s never an easy fete to bring their sound to a complete resting point. If anything, Found Camera leaves behind a perspective slightly off balance, and purposely so to alter your view.

Sound: Excitable, over-stimulated, all-consuming noise-punk attempting to emotionally disconnect from the world, if only it weren’t for the strangely affirming sensation of the void pulling you right back into it.

Recommended: “Temple / Bus Stop”, “Variety Jones”, and “Drowning Flower’s Pot” from their recently released debut album, Found Camera

Force Model’s Found Camera is available now on Bug Body.