Nicole Dollanganger is a Canadian singer-songwriter and artist. Born in Scarborough, Toronto and living in Oshawa, Dollanganger began posting her music on Tumblr in 2011 after recording four records at home while on bed rest from anorexia. Her music is characterized by a high-pitched vocal style and lyrics frequently pertaining to sexuality, violence and sexual violence, BDSM, poverty, self-harm, eating disorders,loss and struggles with mental health. In 2015, Rolling Stone magazine included Dollanganger in an article titled "10 New Artists You Need to Know" stating that her "Gothic Folk songs detailing mental illness, guns, sexual violence, poverty and death are as beautiful as they are brutal."
Career
2011–2014: Career beginnings
Early in 2012, Dollanganger was hospitalized for anorexia nervosa and anorexia athletica and was put on bed rest. On her Tumblr blog, where she had previously posted her covers of songs, she began posting songs she had written and recorded herself. She posted her first original song, "Coma Baby", and included the track in her 2012 debut albumCurdled Milk. Over the next two years, she went on to release Flowers of Flesh and Blood, Ode to Dawn Wiener: Embarrassing Love Songs, and Observatory Mansions. From 2013 to 2014 she sold each record in limited runs of handmade CD-R discs and cassettes.
2015–2016: Eerie Organization and ''Natural Born Losers''
In 2015, Dollanganger opened for American singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey alongside Grimes at a concert in Toronto. Grimes later announced the creation of Eerie Organization, claiming to have started the collaborative to put out Dollanganger's album, Natural Born Losers, stating "It's a crime against humanity for this music not to be heard". In October and November 2015, Dollanganger was a supporting musician in Grimes' Rhinestone Cowgirls Tour. In March 2016, her song "Chapel" was featured in episode 14 of the sixth season of the television series The Walking Dead, titled "Twice as Far". Dollanganger later embarked on a co-headlining tour with Elvis Depressedly and Teen Suicide across the United States from August to September 2016.
2017–present: ''Heart Shaped Bed'', touring, and collaborations
In February 2017, Dollanganger was the support act for the last leg of Code Orange's Forever tour. In May 2017, she collaborated with grindcore band Full of Hell on the title track of their LP Trumpeting Ecstasy. Later in June 2018, she joined Code Orange again for select dates of their The New Reality tour, alongside Vein and Twitching Tongues. In 2018, she announced the release of the album Heart Shaped Bed. The first 5 songs were shared exclusively via her bandcamp on March 30. The full 10-track album, including a newly recorded version of her single "Chapel" produced by Arthur Rizk, was released on October 26 through Crystal Math and Eerie Organization. In 2020 she collaborated with 100 gecs, Craig Owens and Fall Out Boy on a remix of the song "hand crushed by a mallet" originally by 100 gecs, for the remix album "1000 gecs and The Tree of Clues".
