Absolution for the time
An illusion of your mind
And you wanted to be free
And you wanted to be loved
Modele’s Pleasure For The Holy, the title track from their 2025 LP, is a song that offers a grave yet glamorous listening experience. Musician Chris Huggett and co. built the original sound around eager drum machines, a cool mechanical throb, and guitars that sweep in with that large-hearted post-punk ache. It has the posture of devotion and the appetite of a pop song. The lyrics circle purity, freedom, love, release, all those big shining words people drag out when common language has gone stale on them. The mood is uneasy, because pleasure here is never handed over cleanly.
That first version has the Toronto band stretching toward something larger than romance, something half-spiritual and half-chemical, with guitars that carry a fine old ache reminiscent of The Cure’s Kiss Me era and the sweeping, weathered grandeur of Script of the Bridge. The rhythm keeps the song upright, but the emotional pull comes from the way everything feels just slightly out of grasp, like a promise written on cathedral smoke. Longing sounds elegant without draining the blood.
Then, when Ash Code got their hands on it, the song shifts posture, shifts pulse, changes the room it lives in. Alessandro Belluccio, Claudia Nottebella, and Adriano Belluccio heard the yearning in the original and decided that it ought to move its hips a little, ought to leave the chapel and head for the club where bad decisions have better lighting. Their remix thickens the bass, sharpens the synth work, and gives the track a sleek, decadent drag. The ache remains, but now it travels through the body. This is where the song evolves, not by abandoning its emotional center, but by letting that center sink lower, deeper, closer to the floor.
“It was exciting to hear Ash Code’s take on the track – they brought a more dance-driven energy that feels perfect for a dark club setting,” says Modele.
Listen to the Ash Code remix of Pleasure for the Holy below:
Quite right. Ash Code turn longing into movement and make the spiritual crisis sound dressed for danger. What began as a solemn search becomes something more seductive, more physical, more alive to the old fact that many people go looking for salvation and wind up finding a dance floor instead.
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