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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[?]

8.0

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

    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. 9.5 |   Paste Magazine

    The Brooklyn band’s second album expels some of its predecessor’s obliqueness—both musically and lyrically—in favor of perverted pop hooks, haunted club sensibilities, and more straightforward, confessional storytelling
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  3. 9.0 |   Exclaim

    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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  4. 8.5 |   Beats Per Minute

    Model/Actriz have the apocalypse on their side, as these songs of embodiment and frightening tenderness are thrown into ever cooler societies
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  5. 8.1 |   Spectrum Culture

    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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  6. 8.0 |   Dork

    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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  7. 8.0 |   The Guardian

    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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  8. 8.0 |   Clash

    ‘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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  9. 8.0 |   The Skinny

    On Pirouette Model/Actriz continue their tightrope walk over chaos and introspection, desire and vulnerability, with camp aplomb
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  10. 7.1 |   Pitchfork

    The raucous Brooklyn quartet follows up its celebrated debut with an icy, crisp album that’s strikingly honest about self-consciousness in the face of desire
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  11. 7.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    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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