Album: PIROUETTE
Only 22 and already his 5th LP.
He released his debut at 18.
Pitchfork says: “The underground star’s new album sands off the EDM-pop
sheen, revealing ragged-edged rave beats full of romantic declarations and
kitchen-sink experimentation.”
ARTWORK
Designed by Yoshitaka Amano. A 74-year-old Japanese visual artist, character
designer, illustrator, scenic designer for theatre and film, and costume designer.
Press info: “Model/Actriz’s sophomore album Pirouette, swerves out of the maze and directly into the spotlight. Pirouette is both a natural progression and a calculated reset,
a move toward reasserting their command as artists by peeling away the smoke and
mirrors to become brighter, heavier, and more direct.
The pop thread running throughout the album allows the crowd to witness thumping
club music in the spirit of cabaret and manifest the catharsis that comes with hitting
the dancefloor.”
Promo photo by Yulissa Benitez
The Guardian (English newspaper): “Sweat-spattered New Yorkers are the stuff of adoring cult fandom. The album largely thrives on thrilling contrasts: between the band’s tendency to cacophony and the taut control with which they play; between the sweetness of the tunes and the pummelling din behind them.
Haden’s vocals somehow feel intimate and understated, even when he slips into a falsetto,
yet there’s a cocktail of emotional intensity and campy floridity in the lyrics: “I’m such a fucking bitch, girl, you don’t even know,” he purrs on Diva. “Just imagine me absolutely soaked,
dripping head to toe in Prada Sport.” Score: 4/5.
TUTV: Model/Actriz sound like a drill machine hitting non-stop with its motorik Krautrock-like battering. Old skool techno turning new skool techno. Hyperkinetic synth extravaganza with frontman Cole Haden‘s foreboding intonation on top of it.
But just when your body temperature goes up and up, semi-ballad Acid Rain sucks the fire out of the record. Not a bad song in itself, but it silences the dance dynamics at work here. Bad timing. It should have been placed at the end with the equally slow track Baton. Mind you, overall Pirouette produces all the buzz and fuzz needed to become a hit album.
First piece from their upcoming, sophomore LP,
named Pirouette. It’ll see the day of light May 2.
More info here.
New album artwork
Cinderella has a hyperkinetic electro/guitar-riff beat that ticks on
your head non-stop. Tick tick tick tick tick tick. It drives you crazy.
And the ongoing ominous tension in the air is quite scary. Boo-hoo.
