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Model/Actriz: Pirouette review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

Inspired by Mariah and Kylie but full of jackhammer rhythms and noise, the quartet’s second album could attract a big following

Largely cultivated during lockdown, it was a style in which, as bass player Aaron Shapiro put it, “everything is a drum”: each instrument was mined for for its percussive capacity, including the guitar, which emitted blasts of sculptured noise, impressively controlled shrieks of feedback and eerie harmonic tones, but never anything resembling a melody. But Dogsbody didn’t really sound like any of them, even before you got to the vocals of Cole Haden, a succession of theatrical snarls, howls and whines that delivered visceral lyrics about sex and queer desire. Haden’s vocals somehow feel intimate and understated, even when he slips into a falsetto, yet there’s a cocktail of emotional intensity and campy floridity in the lyrics: “I’m such a fucking bitch, girl, you don’t even know,” he purrs on Diva.

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