Astonishingly gifted and utterly terrifying, Nicole Dollanganger first began
posting her gothic bedroom pop songs on her blog in 2012. With the
juxtaposition of her childlike voice and her dark lyrical content she soon
amassed a devoted following, self-releasing four full-length records that were written, recorded and produced alone in her bedroom.
In 2015 she was the first artist featured on Grimes’ Eerie Organization, a collective created solely for the purpose of releasing Dollanganger’s fifth album Natural Born Losers. After first hearing the demo version of album, Grimes had reacted strongly: “This blew my brain up so hard that I literally started a label to fucking put it out because it’s a crime against humanity for this music to not be heard.” The following year her song ‘Chapel’ was featured in episode 81 of AMC’s The Walking Dead. The morbid elements of Dollanganger’s special brand of gothic folk even attracted unlikely contemporaries Full of Hell, who collaborated with her on the title track of their album Trumpeting Ecstasy, and Code Orange who had her as the support act for select dates of their Forever and The New Reality tours.
Releasing her sixth album Heart Shaped Bed on Canada’s Crystal Math and later embarking on her first headlining tour across the United States, Nicole would spend the next few years working almost entirely alone on what would become her seventh full-length album Married in Mount Airy. Self-released in January of 2023 and in many ways a return to her roots, the remarkable and uncanny Married in Mount Airy is Dollanganger at her best.