Artist description Bent on creating confrontational psychological experiences, Fear Of Dolls draws upon a schizophrenic mix of cinematic musical suspense, psychotic nervousness and tension, angelic beauty, emotional frailty, and violent cacophony. The approach is naïve and childlike (minimal, exaggerated and irrational), often resulting in what sounds like parodies of songs; like a child using it's toys to write music about a murder it has just witnessed.

Music Style avante-garde rock, alternative, psychological, experimental

Musical Influences Lydia Lunch, Swans, Velvet Underground, Current 93, Legendary Pink Dots

Artist History Originally formed in 1995, the band has experienced several personnel and musical changes, and in 1999 released an independent debut CD with now former members Joel Bergstrom, Shaun Richards and m. violet. A second CD, this time a single, was released in 2002 featuring Bonni Suval, Shaun Richards, and Thomas Purdy

Group Members Greg Forschler (other past and present members include Joel Bergstrom, Bonni Suval, M. Violet, Shaun Richards, Thomas Purdy

Instruments guitar, bass, drums, vocals, percussion, toys, keyboards, other sounds

Albums When The Organ Played At Twilight, Bless This Broken Body

Press Reviews From Eye / 2000 - Songs from this Seattle band sound like chapters from a Grimm Brothers' anthology set to music, and their mesmerizing nursery rhymes are an engaging mix of tribal undertones, chants, creep-show loops, and quivering trance. When the Organ Played at Twilight is a beautiful experiment in dark folk rock. | From StarVox / March 2000 - ...at times terrifying and peaceful, meditative and insane, beautiful and horrifying. Its the soundtrack to a Kathe Koja novel; its twisted childhood nightmares come alive; its layers upon layers of seductive, evil mind trips. From the disturbing whispers, rants and reverb, to the the meditative atmospheres and sometimes eerie angelic vocals of m. violet, the originality and musicianship of this band cannot be praised enough. | From Snipehunt / 1996 - Hiding in the shadows, front pockets overflowing with candy, rear pockets with knives and rope, Fear Of Dolls play with childhood anxieties

Location Seattle, WA - USA

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