Role Model – ‘Chuck Timely & The Hourglass’ review: a super-smooth depiction of singledom

Last year saw Role Model, one of pop’s great over-sharers, finish up shooting the new Lena Dunham movie, Good Sex. The filmmaker is, of course, no stranger to spilling the beans herself. Just imagine the small talk they made on set. READ MORE: iKeda is building her own world full of bubbly electropop gold It remains to be seen how the 29-year-old singer-songwriter – aka Tucker Pillsbury – fares in his first-ever acting gig, but the whole make-believe thing seems to have rubbed off on him. Where the Maine-born and LA-based musician’s previous two albums found him baring his soul, as he charted the boom and bust of his highly publicised relationship with internet sensation Emma Chamberlain, ‘Chuck Timely & the Hourglass’ is apparently named after a time traveller who’s knocked about with both Michael Jackson and Olivia Rodrigo. Pillsbury has emphasised that this is no concept album. “I wrote all the songs and then came up with this Chuck thing to just represent it,” he told Rolling Stone. However he got here, at least he’s managed to step outside of himself a little. His 2022 debut, ‘Rx’, was an obnoxious alt-pop affair inspired by his romance with Chamberlain. That gave way to 2...