Following a rapturous sold-out headline date at London’s Moth Club last month, Dolores Forever are back with their emotionally charged new single ‘Split Lip’. The track is the latest to be taken from their forthcoming debut album It’s Nothing, which comes September 20th on Sweat Entertainment. Listen to ‘Split Lip’ HERE.
Fan favourite and captivating live moment, ‘Split Lip,’ honours the duo’s protective instincts as friends. “Like when you see your friend going through something and you just want to stand in front of them and keep them safe,” says Hannah. “It’s saying, ‘Love yourself in the way that I love you’”, Julia said of the track.
The song was inspired by each woman’s individual struggles. Julia drew on her experience as a new mother in the music industry, which is “simply not set up for motherhood,” she says. “I’ve sat in the tour van and backstage areas, pumping.” Meanwhile Hannah has found photoshoots and filming videos challenging. “I’m used to being critiqued about my brain and my songs, but I don’t feel good about being critiqued about how I look. And that’s the thing that I’ve had to surrender to, in being an artist, that I never wanted to.”
There’s an infectiously playful, unapologetic feminist energy at the heart of the London-based band, and now, Dolores Forever – the duo who met at a house party in 2018 and instantly became friends – are ready to release their debut album.
It’s a “punchy indie-pop record about feminism, friendship and navigating a messed up world. It blows our minds that the music industry is obsessed with hearing from people who are just 21. As we’ve gotten into our thirties, we have so many more stories, and so much more to say.”
The album is inspired by the last ten years weathering unfair treatment as female songwriters in a male-dominated industry. Julia, from Copenhagen, co-wrote the winning 2013 Eurovision entry for Denmark, Only Teardrops, while Hannah, from London, has written with Kylie and Stormzy.
Their friendship, concludes Hannah, “really is the band’s life blood. Women connect with each other on this amazing level, even in adulthood, and we wanted to make adult female friendship a little more visible. And to say, actually, we should value friendships just as highly as romantic relationships.”
Dolores Forever are building unstoppable momentum.
LIVE DATES
August
Fri 2nd Derby, Y Not Festival
Sat 3rd Barnsley, Underneath The Stars Festival
Sun 4th Oxfordshire, Wilderness Festival
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