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Pirouette

Model/Actriz

Pirouette

Second full-length album from the Brooklyn-based post-punk quartet was produced with Seth Manchester

ADM rating[?]

7.9

Label
Dirty Hit
UK Release date
02/05/2025
US Release date
02/05/2025
  1. 9.5 |   Northern Transmissions

    NEW Ultimately, Pirouette doesn’t seek approval by how it bares itself; it demands surrender. It dares you to experience desire, disgust, shame, and joy—all twirling together in a dizzying blur of lace and lights
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  2. 9.0 |   Exclaim

    NEW It's a subversive rallying cry, filled with Dadaistic expressions of homoeroticism, beauty, indignity, hedonism, infamy, self-hypocrisy, pain and elation, all done unabashedly and without remorse or restraint
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  3. 8.1 |   Spectrum Culture

    NEW If Model/Actriz's stunning debut Dogsbody reveled in starkness and noise, Pirouette pivots in a different direction towards clarity and groove
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  4. 8.0 |   Dork

    NEW Like the dance move it’s named for, ‘Pirouette’ is all about momentum and precision, about spinning fast enough to blur the lines between genres while remaining perfectly, impossibly balanced
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  5. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    NEW 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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  6. 8.0 |   Clash

    NEW ‘Pirouette’ is at its strongest when it turns these elements all the way up, and while it is an engaging listen nonetheless, it falters slightly when they turn back to the familiar
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  7. 8.0 |   The Skinny

    NEW On Pirouette Model/Actriz continue their tightrope walk over chaos and introspection, desire and vulnerability, with camp aplomb
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  8. 7.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    NEW Even if it falls short of the cogency displayed on Dogsbody, Model/Actriz should be applauded for their creative restlessness, the risks they wholeheartedly take
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