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Model/Actriz
Model/Actriz
country: USA
genre: Experimental, Rock
styles: Industrial, Noise, Post-Punk, No Wave
Pirouette
LP
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stereogum / Album Of The Week: Model/Actriz Pirouette
The way Cole Haden commands a stage, you might not guess the band he fronts sounds anything quite like Model/Actriz. The Brooklyn quartet broke through with their 2023 debut Dogsbody, a haunting, gnarly update on aughts dance-punk replete with piercing feedback and industrial flourishes that often took the forefront. “A body count higher than a mosquito,” he proclaimed on album highlight “Mosquito,” likening the pursuit of sex to something as nagging as a seemingly inescapable, blood-sucking parasite. But in spite of the grating noise and graphic lyrics of Dogsbody, Haden doesn’t assume his role in Model/Actriz quite like a Trent Reznor or a David Yow. He’s more like… well, did you see Lady Gaga’s “Abracadabra” video?
Model/Actriz Channel Sex and Death on Pirouette
On their sophomore LP, the NYC quartet trade indie sheen for no-wave chaos and ecstatic, queer catharsis.
I first heard Dogsbody, the debut album by Brooklyn based noise-rockers Model/Actriz, while in Berlin. Though unintentional, the setting proved fitting for an album set at steamy queer clubs on late evenings. Their new album Pirouette sees the emotional intensity being turned up to unstable levels, culminating in a message about reinvention against a backdrop of a world that has taught gay men to feel shame. Remarkably, it’s an improvement on their debut.
If Model/Actriz‘s debut album, Dogsbody, sheepishly lurks in the dim corners and questionable bathrooms of gay clubs, Pirouette is the infallible star everyone clamors to see. Frontman Cole Haden talks back to his demons, then transforms them into a public spectacle. Rather than scoring the soundtrack for a balls-to-the-wall fuckfest, he wields his carnal transgressions with control in a death blow to detached coolness. Interrogations of fetish and desire face inward. Drawing sonic and character inspiration from the pop divas who helped him embrace his sexuality as a teen, he’s no longer a spectator. He’s the main act.
Sweat-spattered New Yorkers are the stuff of adoring cult fandom
Inspired by Mariah and Kylie but full of jackhammer rhythms and noise, the quartet’s second album could attract a big following
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