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'Hymns for the Small Towns' is since unreleased.ĭollanganger hand-made a limited number of physical copies of her first four records (on cassette tape format and CD-R disc format), intending to sell them.Ģ015–2016: Eerie Organization and Natural Born Losers Around a month prior the album's release, on December 9, 2013, Dollanganger had posted on social media a tentative track list for an untitled record she was working on - the record would later be revealed to be Observatory Mansions, but the seventh track on the tentative track list, 'Hymns for the Small Towns', was not included on the album.

The album was recorded in 2013 and would be the last record Dollanganger would write, produce, and record entirely on her own. The title of the nine-track album was adopted from Observatory Mansions, the 2000 debut novel by English novelist Edward Carey. On January 10, 2014, Dollanganger released her fourth album, Observatory Mansions. On February 20, 2013, Dollanganger would release her third album, Ode to Dawn Wiener: Embarrassing Love Songs. In November 2012 she self-released her second album, Flowers of Flesh and Blood. In that regard, I feel I have changed a lot.'ĭollanganger continued creating music and posting her work online. Everything in my life had changed and I think for the first time I kind of came into myself. And after that period, I was a completely different person. I could probably count on my hands how many times I left the house throughout that year, actually. ''s creation coincided with an illness I was battling, and right after I released it, I went on bed rest for a year & completely shut the world out. In a 2014 interview, Dollanganger reflected on how this experience impacted her music and life. (She later revealed that she had been struggling with the disorders while making Curdled Milk.) After being released from the program, she went on bed rest for a year, during which she dropped out of Ryerson University, where she had been studying film. She created the artwork used on the album cover (as well as two alternative album covers, featuring a photograph she took of herself and drew onto.) Shortly after releasing the album, Dollanganger was admitted to a hospital program as she was suffering from anorexia nervosa, anorexia athletica, and bulimia nervosa. Ĭurdled Milk, written, produced, and recorded entirely by Dollanganger in 2011 and early 2012, was self-released online as her debut album and first record on July 13, 2012. Many of the original songs she posted would later be included as tracks on her 2012 debut album, Curdled Milk. In 2011, Dollanganger began posting her music on Tumblr, where she also posted her visual artwork, as well as on Myspace, and Bandcamp.

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She recorded original songs, as well as covers, in her bedroom and bathroom on her MacBook, using the digital audio software GarageBand.

Career 2010–2014: Career beginnings ĭollanganger first began writing, producing, and recording music in 2010.

Dollanganger would later go on to cite musicians her father listened to during her childhood, such as American country music singers Bobbie Gentry and Tammy Wynette, as influential on her own musical style. Dollanganger grew up between Whitchurch-Stouffville, Ontario, and southwest Florida in the USA. Early life ĭollanganger was born on September 8, 1991, in Scarborough, a suburban district in Toronto, Ontario in Canada.

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Her stage name comes from the Dollanganger Series of novels by V. In 2015, Rolling Stone named Dollanganger in an article titled '10 New Artists You Need to Know', stating that her 'gothic folk songs' described as 'macabre millennial nightmares, softened by dream-pop tranquilizers, reverberating from a casket-shaped music box', are 'as beautiful as they are brutal.' Most of her releases were released as digital-only, and a majority of them were initially published by Dollanganger herself through the music website Bandcamp. Her music has been described as ' lo-fi', 'atmospheric', and 'bedroom folk', and is associated with the folk music, folk pop, bedroom pop, sadcore and dream pop genres. ĭollanganger's music is characterized by a feminine, high-pitched vocal style, minimalist instrumentation, and lyrical themes frequently pertaining to true crime, violence, sexuality, and romance. Nicole Ann Bell (born September 8, 1991), known professionally as Nicole Dollanganger, is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter and artist.