Model/Actriz released their surprise EP Swan Songs today and it picks up exactly where Pirouette left off – which is to say somewhere between a gallery opening and a mosh pit. Three tracks, no warning, no rollout. Just the thing itself, dropped into your Friday without ceremony.

Opener Glassman is the most immediately arresting of the three. It is built on industrial-leaning beats that churn underneath Cole Haden’s vocal, which sits somewhere between a confession and a taunt. The subject matter is bracingly mundane – a weekend with a crush – but the band frames it like it is the last weekend before something collapses. They have always had this quality, this ability to make domestic situations feel cosmically stakes-laden, and Glassman is a tight, efficient demonstration of it.

Thank You By Dido is not a Dido cover, which will be obvious the moment you press play. It is an eerie midtempo ballad that shares exactly one quality with its title inspiration: a kind of quiet devastation. The song moves slowly and deliberately, all atmosphere and negative space, and it works precisely because Model/Actriz resist the urge to fill that space with anything unnecessary. It is the most stripped-back thing they have released in years and it holds up.

Closing track Majesty rounds things out with something mellower and more reflective. It is about accomplishing what you set out to do while feeling entirely disconnected from the moment. If that sounds abstract, the track makes it concrete through sheer mood. There is something almost valedictory about the way it ends, which is presumably why the EP is called Swan Songs. Whether that title is a joke or a sincere farewell remains unclear, and that ambiguity is probably intentional.

Three tracks is not a lot of space to work in, but Model/Actriz do not waste any of it. Swan Songs lands as a clean, confident statement from a band that still has more to say – or at least a very stylish way of saying goodbye.