I'm assuming you guys are talking about Islands at the beginning of this page (haven't checked the other page). Pretty good band. Not really my thing anymore, but they write great songs and are way better than the Unicorns. I saw 'em live and they were.. okay.
Ex-Models "Chrome Panthers" sounds nothing like their other album, greedrex. I like it though. It's just two guys, doing a really repetetive, noisey thing. Taking a guess it wasn't very well-recieved considering the gap from that album to any new material. But it's pretty cool; way different than the other stuff.
I'm listening to
http://www.zshare.net/download/55483730c3b5a559/ which is 2 albums by Copycat Massacre. Any fans of tuxedomoon, residents, renaldo and the loaf, snakefinger, etc should get this. It's about 100 tracks of crazy bedroom experiments from 2 extremely talented outsider musicians, very very weird melodic bizarre pop songs using every instrument you can think of. Great shit.