Model/Actriz

Event Details

Doors: 10PM / Show: 11PM / 21+

MODEL/ACTRIZ

Dogsbody, the debut album by Brooklyn-based Model/Actriz (vocalist Cole Haden, guitarist Jack Wetmore, drummer Ruben Radlauer, and bassist Aaron Shapiro), is a coming-of-age album set between the hours of dusk and dawn. It is as much an exploration of love and loss as it is a sharp, piercing, and violent ode to the explosive joy of being alive - the overwhelming brightness of staring at the sun.

Musical Inspiration & Production

The music takes inspiration from the physicality and repetition in electronic music, and the relentlessly propulsive sounds of the cityscape and cycling overground trains. The band was inspired by dance music and how it can be rebuilt, remixed, or broken down into the core elements that keep a song intact and incisive.

Co-produced and mixed by Seth Manchester (Lingua Ignota, The Body, Battles), the record feels inherently tactile; written in starkly different environments (Shapiro's parents' house in Vermont, Haden's grandfather's cabin in Pennsylvania, the Pfizer building in Brooklyn, as well as the basement of Tribeca art gallery The Hole) and reconstituted into the band's own world.

Lyrical Themes

The resulting tautly-rhythmic, industrial chug of the music creates a bed for vocalist Cole Haden to lyrically explore - the city, and all of its dangers and temptations ooze through the lyrics: "And then it's bleeding over / onto my jaw / onto my neck / onto the floor / pours out of my hands / seeps into the grass / running through the drains / swallowing the sun / giving it away cause I got what it takes" (Slate).

Dogsbody plays with the duality of nature as being both ordinary and overwhelming: The thrumming of "Amaranth" describes an imaginary flower that never fades, and even as the city decays, Haden turns an evocative lens on his hope for its regeneration (clear the moss from day's dissolving and / see the petals stagger onto me).

It is akin to Pinocchio (if only he was gay living in a city and fighting an army of megazords) as a narrator trying to find himself amongst a series of circumstances that appear insurmountable at first; enemies and allies that are indistinguishable to his wide-eyed gaze.

Age Requirement

This event is 21 and over. Any ticket holder unable to present valid identification indicating that they are at least 21 years of age will not be admitted to this event, and will not be eligible for a refund. Make sure to bring a valid ID.