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Aaaaaaaand the fourth album up in our so far successful series of posts, which aims to provide some guest writers a chance to voice their opinions on some of the best albums released this decade, is 2003s ‘Zoo Psychology’ by Ex Models, chosen by Michael M from the band We Are The Physics. The fantastically frantic Scottish punk of WATP can be found here, along with all other relevant information such as alternative media platforms like TWITTER and FACEBOOK and EMAIL  and PAGERS and PIGEON CARRIER INFORMATION…

Anyway, here are Michael’s warm and fuzzy thoughts centred towards Ex Models (thank you Michael!):

ZOO PSYCHOLOGY by EX MODELS
There were a brain-ful of amazing records that came out over the past ten years, and it took me ages to decide on one I figured was my favourite. There were so many I hold quite close to me like Franz Ferdinand’s debut, “Love In The Fascist Brothel” by The Plot To Blow Up The Eiffel Tower, and the Futureheads debut. But, the one record that completely changed my life was “Zoo Psychology” by Ex Models. This was their second album and I’d never heard anything like it before. Like Oingo Boingo and Brainiac and Devo and Talking Heads, all in the one entity, with no knowledge that each of them are there. It yelps and jerks its way through barely twenty minutes of disjointed rhythms and shrieking ring-modulated guitars that sound like someone jamming a pencil into an eye and twisting it. It’s not an easy listen, but I don’t think good records should be – they deserve your attention. It’s noisy, jaggy, rough and neurotic and yet totally danceable. The album itself has a bizarre sense of humour, even some of the riffs seem to be mocking you. It’s short, fast and to the point and, as such, in recent years I’ve decided to live by the rules of Ex Models and apply them to all my life decisions. Essentially, when I’m confused about something, I just stick a ring modulator on it and jerk about, then everything’s much better.