Sometimes, it takes a connecting vision for the "big-bang" of creation to take place! For New York City’s The Standard Model, theirs is a story simultaneously ending just as soon as it began. While originally forming in 2001, core members Franco Franus (vocals), Michael "Chuck" Knoblauch (bass guitar), and Michael Narciso (lead and rhythm guitar) released an electrifying four song demo just as the band decided to call it a day.
The group reemerged in 2007, solidifying their line-up with the addition of long time friend Darren O'Toole (Aerovox) on drums. Framing their songs around Franus/Narciso’s unique songwriting (especially Franco's vocal style) and Knoblauch/O’Toole's extroverted vision, the band fell into their own. The Standard Model currently plays their dark, trembling and melodic style of rock throughout New York City and the surrounding areas.
Recording at Greenhouse Audio in Milford, PA with friend and producer Isaac Betesh (Brian Jonestown Massacre, House of Fire, Sounds of Kaleidoscope) this past spring, the band finally put ten of their most familiar tracks down for what is looking to be an electrifying debut album.
The 'standard model' in scientific terms could consist of many imaginings. In the particle physics theory, it consists of up to four “known fundamental interactions and the elementary particles that take part in these interactions”. Perhaps that's just what this band in practice is; a like-minded group by definition coming together to create something altogether unique; but by no means, 'standard'.
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