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Leverage Models Curate an Ambitious Compilation for a Great Cause with ‘Greys’

Leverage Models Curate an Ambitious Compilation for a Great Cause with ‘Greys’

Shannon Fields has assembled something of a companion piece to the 2018 Leverage Models album Whites, with stunning results on Greys. Plus, the album benefits the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees in upstate New York.

Leverage Models Create a Dense, Brand of Postmodern Thinking-Persons’ Synthpop with ‘Whites’

Leverage Models Create a Dense, Brand of Postmodern Thinking-Persons’ Synthpop with ‘Whites’

With mastermind Shannon Fields in the driver's seat, the second full-length album by the utterly unclassifiable Leverage Models is overflowing with sonic delights and lyric density.

Leverage Models’ Experimental Pop Blossoms Into Glorious Synthpop on “Senators” (premiere)

Leverage Models’ Experimental Pop Blossoms Into Glorious Synthpop on “Senators” (premiere)

Leverage Models bring electronic textures, jazz inflections, and global rhythms to their infectious indie pop, all the while addressing potent cultural and political issues both personal and public.

SXSW’s Little Sister: Savannah Stopover Music Festival

SXSW’s Little Sister: Savannah Stopover Music Festival

As far as festivals go SXSW is a lot like the high school cheerleader. Everyone either wants her or wants to be her. If this be true, then the Savannah Stopover Music Festival is her little sister. Younger, more modest, and increasingly harder to overlook.
Leverage Models: Leverage Models

Leverage Models: Leverage Models

Ultimately this is pop music in the same sense as the New Pop that reshaped and expanded things in such interesting ways after punk: prescriptive and aspirational rather than content to huddle within the boundaries of existing forms and formulas.