Photo by Chris Wojcicki

Force Model made a buzzworthy impression earlier this year with the release of their debut album, Found Camera, and in case you missed it, let this be your reminder to give it a listen before we fully head into the always busy fourth quarter of new music. What you’ll hopefully take away from the listen is that calling the Los Angeles trio a post-hardcore band is a very broad and malleable term (although it’d be nice to believe that their arrival nudged the upcoming Blood Brothers reunion tour into being…) given that Found Camera holds dimensions in its heaviness that show off vocalist and guitarist Edie Vogel, bassist Maxwell Moore, and drummer Ken Arimura’s willingness to explore nuance in the realm of their own search for life’s answers. “Crossed Off”, a new standalone single, again tests those limits, though in a surprisingly more subtle turn. Along the way, subway stops and familiar faces round these corners, taking their aggressively emotionally wrought energy and asking what would become of it if it were welcomed by the softer hands of jangle-pop, glimpses of second emo nostalgia, and proggier deep thinks. A multitude of feelings run through their view, and they leave nothing uncrossed in working through them.

Force Model’s “Crossed Off” single is available now.