Model/Actriz - Pirouette

Model/Actriz's 'Pirouette' spins like a ballet dancer wielding a chainsaw - precise yet dangerous, graceful but ready to tear everything apart. On their second album, the Brooklyn quartet has crafted a masterwork that flits between industrial aggression and pop vulnerability, never losing its balance even as it threatens to spiral out of control.

The record opens with 'Vespers', a dark dancefloor meditation that sets the tone for what's to come. It's immediately clear this isn't the same band that delivered last year's jagged debut 'Dogsbody'. Where that record was all sharp edges, 'Pirouette' finds beauty in the spaces between the chaos.

'Cinderella' struts through the 1980s with murderous intent, transforming a fairy tale into something simultaneously seductive and sinister. The industrial stomp of 'Poppy' showcases the band's masterful layering, while 'Diva' could share playlist space with Korn without breaking a sweat.