Brooklyn-based group Model/Actriz have announced that their sophomore album, Pirouette, will be arriving on May 2 via True Panther Records (and Dirty Hit outside of the US). On the record’s lead single, “Cinderella,” vocalist Cole Haden croons and pleads over pounding industrial-metal percussion and guitar chords that are less played than forcibly removed from the instrument.
“‘Cinderella’ distills within it many of the objectives that would become the lifeblood of Pirouette,” Haden shared of the new single and LP. “The song switches between moments of tension and fluidity, dissonance and harmony: we aimed to write something with an inherent brightness that differed anything we had made before, and the light that shines through the song was made not through removing darkness, but through upping the contrast.”
Regarding the lyrics, Haden added: “The lyrics were written in response to that canvas, and give voice to an inner dialogue I once had while on a date with a beautiful man. It’s a song about the realization that there was shame and pain I carried long after it had become obsolete, and while it was uncertain if I would ever see this person again, I could remember him always as the mysterious catalyst that released me from it.”
The track’s music video was directed by Nathan Castiel, and it features the band reenacting the familiar film from which the song takes its name. Check out the highly entertaining clip below, and pre-order Pirouette here.
