Model/Actriz

Some bands make music for your head; Model/Actriz makes music for the nervous system. The Brooklyn quartet forged its sound in the city’s sweatiest DIY spaces, whipping punishing industrial beats into a frenzy of no wave guitar. On their 2023 debut, Dogsbody, frontman Cole Haden prowls and contorts, spitting out lyrics that drag desire and disgust into the strobing light. Engineered with producer Seth Manchester (The Body, Lingua Ignota) at his Machines with Magnets studio, the True Panther Sounds release is a brutal, physical document of the body under pressure—a sound built for packed rooms where catharsis feels not just possible, but inevitable.