Remodel have an effortlessly glossy indie sound with a hint of nostalgic 90's Britpop. La Belle Dame Sans Merci has infectious hooks, a great sing-a-long chorus and an opening the blows you off your feet if you're not expecting it.
Us And Them put them in a slightly different light. Heavily influenced by the Blockheads, you keep wanting to refer to them as scamps or rascals, for no justifiable reason. It's catchy, danceable and... rascalish. (See what I mean) One for anyone who got to hear The Metros recently.
Chris Bound, Substock [website]

Remodel release their third single on limited edition 7” single (yay for vinyl!) and after a bit of a false start it turns out to be just as good as British Racing Green and Formula.
I say that because the first 30 seconds seem a little laboured for me and the vocals seem a little too restrained, i’m about to start feeling disappointed about this release when everything suddenly kicks into gear and the tempo is lifted into a more melodic new wave track than previous releases.
On the b-side tucked away quietly is the equally good Us And Them, it’s got a bit more pace and balls about it than La Belle Dame Sans Merci, but maybe not the same classy sophistication. Two good tracks though and full steam ahead for the next release…keep ‘em coming!
Kevin Trotter, The Beat Surrender [review | website]

Here in the basement of the well oiled ‘look I put it there I swear’ filing operations at the heart of the losing today tree house with turntable headquarters we’ve been mightily perplexed these last 10 minutes for not only have we managed to lose the press release to this CD came wrapped in but we’ve also mislaid the sleeve that housed in and the obliging sticker which we advised the band to attach onto said disc advising us to ’drop everything and play immediately’ - and yes I know there’s a highly hilarious Carry On joke somewhere in there but I’ll be buggered if I’m going to succumb to it. Anyhow latest offering from those nice people over at Sad Gnome records of whom it should be said whose depicted ‘label’ Gnome isn’t so much sad looking but quite possibly suicidal - poor fella have stumped up another corker to follow hot-ish on the heels of outings from the likes of My Name is Red and Marianne Nowottny in the shape of Remodels (I think) third single. ’la belle dame sans merci’ is roughly translated as ‘the beautiful lady without pity’ and not alas as ’bog off thank you’ which was the resulting option prized and offered up by google’s impish language tools add on. Between you and me it has more than a passing hint of Gene sparring with a mid career Six by Seven about its wares which is no bad thing, the sly and subtle corkscrewing riffs accentuated by a nagging lazy eyed drag and set off with something emotionally torn, forlorn and simmering with a kind off centre tension wherein you expect it to fire and unravel any second soon - sadly it never quite achieves such though that said there is a neat Neil Young moment at three minutes in which frankly does more than enough to save it and make it alone worthy enough of the entrance fee. That said in sharp contrast and it should be said for us the far superior of the brace is ‘us and them’ - more animated and teeth bared in both terms of dynamic and delivery, the acutely snaring riff jabs, the call / response interchanges between the lead vocal and the backing harmonies, the stop / start time signature shifts and the elementary whiff of something impatient endow it with a knowing hint that would suggest the feint agitant demeanour of the Fatima Mansions brooding just below the surface, though scratch a little deeper and the tensely wound and sharpened angular pop drills are found more appropriately nodding in the general direction of a late 70’s era Stranglers.
Mark Barton, losingtoday.com [review | website]

London nu wavers Remodel look great. In their suits and skinny ties they look like a jumble sale Jam or Franz Ferdinand at Oxfam. One day all bands will look like Remodel, and if they don't the bloody well should.
The band's sound is as sharp as the lapels on their suits and will appeal to fans of classic Brit pop.
On the band's new single 'La belle dame sans merci', released earlier this month on Sad Gnome Records, lead singer Leigh Swinn's sonorous crooning sounds like he's had a larynx transplant with Gene's Martin Rossiter as the donor, while behind him the band cook up a traditional English mixed grill of , The Who and The Jam. The b-side (isn't this really redundant in these digital days?) 'Us and Them' and 'Cognoscenti' , the track provided for download below, are altogether spikier, like refugees from the Roxy in 1978 shacking up with the The Kaiser Chiefs.
They're remodel and they're sounding good.
Paul Kerr, The Devil Has The Best Tuna [review | website]