In Broken Shell, a wistful Dolly mourns a romantic rejection over moody synths and dancehall inspired drums.
The track is the first single off Slug Dreams, Dolly’s debut album, out September 14, 2021. Slug Dreams is a diverse yet cohesive collection of dreamy ballads, spoken word pieces, moody dance-influenced earworms, and high energy pop, all with Dolly’s signature electronic production style, catchy melodies and an affinity for processed or altered vocals. Its eclectic influences include Kate Bush, Caroline Polachek, Mitski, Oneohtrix Point Never and SOPHIE but Dolly’s sound is one of a kind.
Dolly Dirtbag is a loose collection of warring personalities and the musical and artistic alter-ego of Olivia Hauser, an LA-based avant-pop songwriter and producer. The Dolly pantheon plays with traditional tropes of femininity: the slutty baby, the sassy pre-teen, the scorned woman but also includes a gender-neutral, calm and heavenly slug and seeks to complicate stereotypes by refusing to occupy a stable persona. Dolly thrives most in areas of tension between supposed opposites or differentiated categories: in between characters, genres, genders, in between high and low-brow culture. The project also straddles the line between playful, over-the-top sarcasm and raw emotional vulnerability and in doing so speaks to the universal struggle to forge a self somewhere in between authenticity and performance.
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released June 4, 2020
written, recorded and produced by Dolly Dirtbag
mixed and mastered by Sahy Uhns
artwork by Dolly Dirtbag
Recorded in a bedroom in Santa Fe, Velvet Vision presents four gorgeous, synth-propelled songs with dreamlike vocal melodies. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 24, 2021