Photo by Kane Ocean

Model/Actriz’s Cole Haden just received a songwriting credit on a new Miley Cyrus song and the first single from the band’s sophomore effort, Pirouette, was decidedly more into exploring dance music’s fringe fairytales than rampaging through industrial noise. While the Brooklynites probably wish they could escape the Xiu Xiu-esque allegations by now when describing their progressive trajectory in creating something of a beyondness in experimental sounds, their latest preview, “Doves”, is another fabulous muscular flex on a noise-to-pulsating electronic pop pivot that bows to ‘s soprano. Its build is temptational in displaying something harsher in stretching out its wingspans just to graze a harder surface, only to stop short of scraping into it fully. “I drag my nails on blackened stone / I scratch my name in crooked rows / Trade sweat for wax and tears for smoke / I make a rapture out of / Waiting.” In withholding from that louder ecstasy, Model/Actriz derive their own nuance to that pleasure.

Model/Actriz’s Pirouette will be released May 2nd on True Panther / Dirty Hit.