Digging into Nicole Dollanganger’s back catalogue is like falling through a trapdoor in a cobweb-covered old mansion. It’s a little scary but mostly thrilling, never knowing where you’ll end up, what horrors you’ll find when you get there, or what weirdo friends you’ll make along the way.
Boston label Run For Cover Records get it, which is why they’re putting out two of the Canadian singer songwriter’s home-recorded full-lengths releases onto vinyl for the first time: 2014’s Observatory Mansions, which includes the moth-eaten demo version of my favourite Natural Born Loser song , and the 2013’s Ode To Dawn Wiener: Embarrassing Love Songs, an album-length tribute to a misfit that features barely-in-tune schoolyard melodies, a track about watching I Love Lucy with a Puppy, and the lyric your cum is like warm milk.
Nicole is in the middle of a month-long tour with labelmates Teen Suicide and Elvis Depressedly. Here down below you can hear “Observatory Mansions II,” a huge-sounding full-band take on the a two year old title track. (The new version is a bonus cut on the reissued vinyl)
The Fat Angel Sings 