[Cover photo credit to Kim Peterson]

Australian-born, Los Angeles-based artist Dolly Dagger has just released her single and video “Tower” combining her creative visual sensibilities with introspective Rock. This follows six months after her EP, Nightmare.

Dolly Dagger works with songwriter/guitarist Jesse McInturff and the two joined forces with Producer, co-writer and drummer Louie Diller (Holychild) for the first time on this new release. The result blends symbolism in an epic style inspired by the Renaissance. The track takes a stand against being mythologized in unhelpful ways in a relationship and embraces a stronger, even forbidding image, in order to get the point across.

Dolly shares:

Louie Diller has such a killer repertoire of artists he’s written and produced for so we were thrilled to have him on the team for this song. It was my absolute pleasure to watch Louie and Jesse develop some big hype energy. After the instrumentals came together, I started to feel out stories and emotions. It ended up sounding pretty heavy which surprised us, but we’re glad it happened that way because the movement and progression of the song has us pumped!

When it came time to build visuals, Dolly Dagger explored her own production skills honed through professional work and her own previous videos. She brought in costumes, projections, sword fights and even dragons!

Dolly explains:

I had just watched The Wheel of Time so that was fresh in my mind, but buried deeper was Alice in Wonderland slaying the Jabberwocky. I added a dash of NIN “perfect drug” dark-garden slow-motion vibes, as well as Eyvind Earle’s concept art for Sleeping Beauty.