Nicole Dollanganger

Nicole Ann Bell (born September 8, 1991), known professionally as Nicole Dollanganger, is a Canadian-American singer-songwriter. Dollanganger's music is characterized by a feminine, high-pitched vocal style, minimalist instrumentation, and lyrical themes frequently pertaining to true crime, violence, sexuality, and romance. Her music has been described as "lo-fi", "atmospheric", and "folk", and is associated with the folk, folk pop, bedroom pop, slowcore and dream pop genres. In 2015, Rolling Stone named Dollanganger in an article titled "10 New Artists You Need to Know," stating that her "gothic folk songs," described as "macabre millennial nightmares, softened by dream-pop tranquilizers, reverberating from a casket-shaped music box," are "as beautiful as they are brutal." Most of her releases were released as digital-only, and a majority of them were initially published by Dollanganger herself through the music website Bandcamp. Her stage name comes from the Dollanganger Series of novels by V. C. Andrews.

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