Canadian singer/songwriter Nicole Dollanganger is about to release her new album Natural Born Losers, an album Grimes apparently loves so much she started a new sort-of-but-not-really record label just to put it out. (There has been some online speculation that Dollanganger is actually Grimes' new alter ego, and their voices do sound a lot alike, but unless it's an insanely elaborate hoax with seemingly very little payoff, the evidence suggests that Dollanganger is indeed a real person.) We've heard one song from the record already, "You're So Cool," and now we're hearing another, "Angels Of Porn (II)", a reworking of an acoustic track from Dollanganger's 2014 Bandcamp release Observatory Mansions. The new fleshed-out electric guitar and organ version is an odd mixture of sweet and sour, with Dollanganger's unsettling lyrics made even more unsettling by her plaintive babydoll vocals. The VHS-style video, directed by Dollanganger herself along with Kevin Jenkins and Matt Tomasi, features a bunch of leather-clad guys hanging out by an empty baseball field, messily eating desserts and making out, occasionally at the same time. Watch and listen below.
[videoembed size="full_width" alignment="center"]
[/videoembed]
Dollanganger is also opening for Grimes on an upcoming North American tour, and you can check out dates for that below.
10/24 Santa Ana, CA @ Growlers Beach Goth Party Festival
10/26 Vancouver, BC @ Commodore
10/27 Portland, OR @ Wonder
10/28 Seattle, WA @ The Showbox
10/31 San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore
11/02 Los Angeles, CA @ Mayan
11/07 Austin, TX @ Fun Fun Fun Festival
11/09 New Orleans, LA @ Republic
11/10 Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works
11/11 Atlanta, GA @ Buckhead Theatre
11/13 Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
11/14 Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
11/16 New York, NY @ Terminal 5
11/20 Boston, MA @ Paradise
11/21 Montreal, QC @ Metropolis
11/22 Toronto, ON @ Danforth
11/25 Chicago, IL @ Metro
Natural Born Losers is out 10/9 via Eerie Organization. Pre-order it here.
