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HISS

by The Doll

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Released by Big Sleep Records
bigsleeprecords.bandcamp.com/album/hiss

A1 Bubblewrap
A2 Saw
A3 Wheel

B1 Static
B2 Home Sweet Home
B3 Silence
B4 Lean
B5 Radiator


Recorded in Dalston, Macclesfield, Central District & Mt. Eden.

Thanks to Thom, Jan, Kate, Dean, Sebby, Indira, Stefan & the Unknown Rockstar.

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released June 11, 2018

"It's not easy for me to imagine someone other than The Doll creating these types of sounds- where you can't distinguish what it is and how it feels like two completely different things at the same time, two things which you don't think should maybe go together but somehow when The Doll does it, it just works. Also, typing about The Doll like this makes me feel like The Doll is like The Rock in that way. But yes, this is what makes The Doll so special and why you should be listening to this music-- it does what no one else can."
- raisedbygypsies.blogspot.com/2018/06/cassette-review-doll-hiss-big-sleep.html

"a tape that will put traditional music and their boring instruments in the corners of shadow & put innovative ideas and unconventional things in the spotlight of potent music & sound makers!"
- yeahiknowitsucks.wordpress.com/2019/06/05/the-doll-hiss/

"The Doll manipulates sound – that’s a given! – but these field recordings tell a story grounded in everyday events, in real life, in the physical world around us that we can touch and feel and embrace – and pop! Throughout “Hiss,” during which there’s a lot of the titular sonic flourish, The Doll observes, records, and reflects, flashing commentary on the disposability of objects through the sound associated with them."
- cassettegods.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-doll-hiss-big-sleep-records.html

"Sounds escaping from time. Like watch dogs or guards, recording devices are positioned on make shift perimeters. There is no struggle, sonic patterns are captured on magnetic tape or in binary form. This aural pool is full of all noises, initial vanguard cacophony sacrificed without hesitation. Soon the instruments used to keep the Hiss contained within a specific time frame will reach capacity. The machines will begin to frizzle and wail in their own mechanical way. Creating more sounds, new notes, bleeps and blurps to join the departing throng."
- lostseasound.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-doll-hiss.html

""The Doll is a secretly great sonic moniker (soniker?) because it completely guards against assumptions of what an artist called The Doll sounds like. Some iteration of "doll" I would have at least had a hint. The Babydolls? Doll Face? Doll Eyes? The New Jersey Dolls? But just The Doll? I had no fucking clue. Literally no ideas popped into my head. The red bubblewrap cover didn't prod me in any direction either. Now Hiss was potentially a proper clue, but I don't know, maybe after all this it's just neo-post-neo-nü-shügaze?"
- auxiliaryout.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-doll-hiss-big-sleeppatrick-cosmos.html

"Last year this label brought us the weird and wonderfulTonal Rotors by Patrick Cosmos. This is also weird and wonderful, but in different ways. I take it the track titles ('Bubblewrap', 'Static', 'Radiator') have something to do with their creation, but it's hard to tell. I tweeted that 'Static' gave me Twin Peaks: The Return vibes, and the artist responded "Aaah the sweet sounds of a '96 Toyota Starlet..." Noise, but with a sense of humour."
- www.bandcloud.org/bc218/

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The Doll Patea, New Zealand

Contact mics, balloons, vox, magnetic tape, percussion junk, garbage from side of the road, horns, appliances, T-Pain mic & field recordings. Cool Edit Pro on an XP craptop.

The Doll plays in TBA & PUNTERS (Seattle noise improv) Septithe (AK BBQ Doom) tujuh kuda (London noisy ambient) Toxic Octopus (London distortions) Unknown Tofu (improv percussion) US/Aotearoa collective noiser Contact Mike
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