Sister duo Dolder has just released a dreamy, nostalgia-soaked alt-pop track where the most brutal, deep-cutting lyrics become tender through their breathy vocals and acoustic guitar: “Bone Structure.” The track perfectly captures the feeling of wanting to stay knowing you have to leave, of seeing someone in secret, of lying to your therapist about them — of hating someone’s guts but loving their bone structure.
The sisters’ (Dani and Zara) ability to depict love as a “subliminal distraction” and “cruel amalgamation” in one line, and then call their love interest “Ray-Bans on a circus clown” and “plain sociopathic” in another, mirrors such emotional perplexity. They describe the song as being about “hazy limerence,” a kind of irresistible craving for the wrong person who turns out to only be good as a concept, a self-destructive fantasy.
The song was was recorded in New York with Oli Deakin, the indie rock, folk, and bedroom pop producer for CMAT’s If My Wife Knew I’d Be Dead and the Mercury Prize-nominated EURO-COUNTRY — the painfully humorous pop songwriting of which can also be found in “Bone Structure.”
The brutally honest themes of emotional destruction, love-hate relationships, and forbidden yearning are also explored in the Newcastle duo’s latest EP The Motive. You can stream “Bone Structure” and the EP on all platforms now.
Catch Dolder on the road with Benjamin Steer across Germany, the UK, and Ireland next month for his Not-So-Nonchalant Tour. Tickets are available here.
Tour Dates:
May 17 – Munich, Germany
May 22 – Bristol, UK
May 23 – London, UK
May 24 – Leeds, UK
May 26 – Glasgow, UK
May 27 – Dublin, Ireland
May 28 – Birmingham, UK
May 30 – Manchester, UK
