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childish game of let’s-pretend-we’re-back-alley-abortionists. The album’snal track, the pastoral and positive
rst single “Sing ,” brings it all home
as Palmer boldly announces, “Life is no Cabaret/We’re inviting you anyway,”
underlining The Dolls’ real-life attemptto invite everyone into their party while
maintaining the individuality that has
enabled them to be a x ture rather than
a fad.Inclusion is an art form
that The Dresden Dolls have perfected.
The artwork for Yes, Virginia was culledfrom over 600 submissions from fans,
painters and designers from aroundthe globe. Each panel of the bookletincludes original images directly
inspired by the songs. Featured is up-and-coming New York painter Barnaby Whiteld, who plays Warhol to the
Doll’s Velvet Underground, creating
beautifully disturbing scenes withinthe CD booklet reminiscent of post- WWI German Expressionists Otto
Dix and Christian Schad. This project
is just one installment of the on-going
artistic collaborations between the bandand their fans. Additionally, a ood of
home–made lms, burlesque numbers,
sculptures and animations to completeplays and musicals based around theband’s songs have created a constant
dialogue between band and audience.The same spirit exists at
live shows, as manifested in the so-
called “Brigade”, where the Dolls
collaborated with hundreds of
performing artists ranging from highschool drama troupes to top-shelf actors and professional circus artists,
including members of Montreal’scelebrated Cirque Eloize and San
Fransiciso’s Vau de Vire Society.
The Dolls’ self-titled debut hasbeen selling strong and steady. Initially released on Palmer’s own Eight FootRecords in the fall of 2003, the album
was subsequently re-released upon the
band’s signing with Roadrunner. The
release of two wildly different singles,
the manic-punk “Girl Anachronism ”and the cabaret-tinged and bittersweet“Coin-Operated Boy,” which debuted
on KCRW via the inuential DJ Nic
Harcourt, swiftly went on to be the
most-requested singles on a handful
of stations nationwide. Both songs were showcased in wonderfully twisted videos shot and edited by Michael
Pope. Airtime on MTV2 and theInternet immediately began to win theband thousands of admirers for theirinnovative style and “Coin-Operated Boy ”received an MTVU award nomination.
The Dresden Dolls will surely continue spreading their musical call-to-arms into a world which, though
veiled by a mask of enlightenment, stillseems as cynical as ever. The intangible
madness, rage and love which passes
between these two musicians radiatesdeeply into their audience, creating a
human encounter that has - strangely - become unexpected in today’s live
music. Perhaps they need to be seento be believed, but even then, it is
the unseeable which makes this bandmagic.
DISCOGRAPHY
|Studio albums The Dresden Dolls (2003) Yes, Virginia... (2006) (#42 US, #41AUT, #138 FRA, #105 UK)
|EPs, live albums and compilations The Dresden Dolls (2001) A Is for Accident (2003) No, Virginia... (#94 US) (2008)
|Singles “Good Day” (2003) “Girl Anachronism” (2003) “Coin-Operated Boy” (2004) “Sing” (2006) “Backstabber” (2006) “Shores of California” (2007) “Night Reconnaissance” (2008) “Dear Jenny” (2008)
The Dresden Dolls
Brechtian Punk Cabaret Rock bands are pigeonholed into ever-increasingly minuscule sub-categorizations, but The Dresden Dolls continue
to defy explanation and classication. While some have called it theatrical rock, punk cabaret, manic-musical, neo-glam - torch, eventually even the most clever and creative describers shrug and say: “You just have to hear it to believe it.”
Living in a two-faced, popular
culture built on artice that demands
authenticity, The Dresden Dolls take
the world stage, tear down the curtain,
rip holes in the veneer and create their
own rules, rhymes and reason. For
the past ve years, the duo has been
climbing steadily out of the artistictrenches and into the mainstream of
rock on their own terms. The Dollsthrive on their inherent juxtapositions.
The musical-theater and New-Wave
background of writer/singer/pianist Amanda Palmer mixes with drummer
Brian Viglione's heavy metal roots to
create a sonic smear of unclassiable
rock. Palmer wails; Viglione cackles. Itis this dichotomy that supplies the band with a yin-yang quality that keeps them
hurtling through space, pulling each
other to and fro in an endless - andhighly entertaining - match of musical wits.
After signing with RoadrunnerRecords in early 2004, the band has
been enjoying a whirlwind schedule
that has included headlining sold-outtours on four continents, opening
for Nine Inch Nails (Trent Reznor
hand-picked the band after seeing
their homemade video for “Girl Anachronism ” on television), performing
at the world’s biggest festivals including
Coachella, Fuji Rock, Roskilde and
Glastonbury, writing an original
musical at the prestigious AmericanRepertory Theater (scheduled topremiere in 2007) and releasing an
innovative and acclaimed l ive DVD.
A giant groundswell of interest - anda fan base that grows exponentially
as the band tours - is setting the stagefor an explosive response when Yes,Virginia - the band’s newest collectionof songs, is turned loose on an eager
public this spring. Produced by Sean
Slade and Paul Q. Kolderie (Radiohead,
The Pixies, Hole) and
recorded over several
weeks at Allaire
Studios (a convertedturn-of-the-century mansion in theCatskill Mountainsof upstate New York), Yes, Virginia is a rich tapestry thatshowcases the band’sroad-sharpenedmusical chemistry and digs deep intorecesses of thehuman heart usually considered taboo.
Songs like
“Sex Changes ” and
“Dirty Business ”blast listeners with earsplitting Marshall Stack Power and explore the
pathology of identity crisis. Torchcousins “First Orgasm ” and “ Me &
The Minibar ” nds Palmer back aloneat her piano, delicately unfolding her
pained confessions. Viglione solidies
his place in the Drummer Pantheonas he delivers mind-boggling lls and
ourishes on fast-and-furious tunes
“ Modern Moonlight ” and “ Necessary Evil.”On “ Mrs. O,” a slightly cryptic mid-
tempo ballad about the re-writing of history, Palmer takes on the dangerous
character of a holocaust-denying old
woman with the words “There’s NoHitler and No Holocaust/No Winter and No Santa Claus/And Yes, Virginia, All Because/The Truth Won’t Save You Now...” This line, and the title of the record
itself, is a reference to the now-famous
1897 New York Sun letter to the editor
in which 8-year old Virginia O’Hanlon
questions the existence of Santa Claus.
Palmer’s ambiguous reaches at
answering life’s impossible questions- whether about identity, loneliness
or technology - may echo dark, but
underneath lies a timid optimism anda childlike wonder. The Dolls have
not lost their sense of the absurd,
however, and the blacker-than-black-
humor on “ Mandy Goes To Med School ”nds Palmer imagining a scenario
in which she and drummer/cohort Viglione play a lighthearted and
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