A certain tension that once existed in more graphic detail between a carnally sexualized kind of love story and the devastation it leaves when its broken into pieces seems to have been reawakened in the physical arrest of Dogsbody, the debut full-length from Brooklyn noise-rockers Model/Actriz. Here lies a band whose electrical palette they plug into bares the more visceral instincts of today’s industrial music landscape akin to their city peers YVETTE and equally caps-locked west coast heathens HEALTH, but the performance art smeared across the currents which vocalist Cole Haden, guitarist Jack Wetmore, drummer Ruben Radlauer, and bassist Aaron Shapiro draw from – especially that of Haden whose boy soprano contorts with a porcelain fragility in tone and prose not heard within experimental spaces since Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu showed us just how beautiful devastation could be over 20 years ago – is what makes Dogsbody more of an arch story rather than one defined by tight-chest panic and thrusting movements between the dark and light. The loudest part about it is how after being torn apart, Model/Actriz find their way into sunlight and bask in it, battered heart and all.

Highlights: “Mosquito”, “Amaranth”, “Sun In”

Model/Actriz’ Dogsbody is available now on True Panther.

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