{"title":"Dot Allison","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDot Allison, born Dorothy Elliot Allison on 17 August 1969 in Edinburgh, Scotland, is a singer and songwriter. She has made significant contributions to electronic music circles, particularly during her time as the lead vocalist of the band One Dove in the early 1990s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith her unique blend of captivating vocals and innovative songwriting, Dot Allison has garnered a dedicated following within the music industry. Her talent for creating mesmerizing electronic soundscapes has earned her recognition and respect from both critics and fans alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout her career, Dot Allison has continuously pushed boundaries and explored new musical territories. Her distinctive style effortlessly combines elements of electronica, pop, and alternative rock, resulting in a sound that is truly original and captivating.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"consciousology","title":"Consciousology","description":"\u003cp\u003eDot Allison returns with a new solo album, \u003ci\u003eConsciousology\u003c\/i\u003e. After over a decade away, the former One Dove singer and songwriter broke cover in 2021 with Heart-Shaped Scars and this new album follows just two years later, as she hits a purple patch of songwriting. It’s also her first full release for Sonic Cathedral after contributing to Mark Peters’ acclaimed \u003ci\u003eRed Sunset Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e last year. \u003ci\u003eConsciousology\u003c\/i\u003e finds multi-instrumentalist Dot joined by the London Contemporary Orchestra, her new labelmate Andy Bell from Ride, who plays guitar on two tracks, and Hannah Peel, who is responsible for some of the string arrangements with both the LCO and a stellar group of Scottish string players. It expands on the styles and themes of the previous album, all while pushing everything just that little bit further – the songs sound bigger, more avant-garde and experimental and, occasionally, properly out-there and psychedelic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I wanted to make some albums that felt like a set, exploring love, what lies beyond the visible and how all these aspects dovetail together,” explains Dot. “I see Consciousology a more psych Heart-Shaped Scars with a far fuller, more immersive sound and so, in that sense, it’s a more wayward, bolder, rule-breaking partner.” Right from the eye-catching artwork by PJ Harvey collaborator Maria Mochnacz it definitely does not play it safe. It veers from the techno-played-as-folk of opener ‘Shyness Of Crowns’ and ‘220Hz’ and the Linda Perhacs-meets-The Velvet Underground chug of the first single ‘Unchanged’ to the Mercury Rev-style fantasia of ‘Bleached By The Sun’, the Brian Wilson-esque harmonies of ‘Moon Flowers’ and the kaleidoscopic colour trip of ‘Double Rainbow’. Elsewhere there are echoes of Desertshore-era Nico, Jack Nitzsche’s work with Neil Young, Karen Dalton and Anne Briggs before the relative simplicity of the Tim Hardin-inspired closer ‘Weeping Roses’. 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The record features two tracks, the hauntingly alluring Ghost Orchid and Love Died in our Arms, a nod to Dot’s Trip-hop past, as well as a download code to an unreleased Dot Allison track. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe artwork was made by Michelle Henning, and features a delicate cyanotype of an Orchid. 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Allison will always be identified with the band that initially launched her, One Dove, whose Andy Weatherall-produced album Morning Dove White became a downbeat electronic landmark, but her own albums and collaborations amount to a much more significant body of work, with a commanding range across genres and narrative ambition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The records that I have made were more like a window into my world,” she says. None more so than \u003ci\u003eHeart-Shaped Scars\u003c\/i\u003e, which gathers many threads of Allison’s broad interests – not just musical but literary, philosophical and her interest in science and nature. Framed by a backdrop of exquisitely sparse and intoxicating dream-folk and Allison’s vocal at its most ethereal, the album is, “obtusely, a concept album,” she reveals. “Love, loss and a universal longing for union that seems to go with the human condition.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranquil in sound and passionate in spirit, \u003ci\u003eHeart-Shaped Scars\u003c\/i\u003e is also Allison’s most personal record yet. Since her debut solo album Afterglow in 1999, Allison has strived to, “keep the listener on a journey – and myself too. I revolt against what I have done before, to evolve and not just occupy the same space.” That journey has taken her from Afterglow’s broad church (trip-hop, Tim Buckley-esque ballads, dance tracks, chilled psychedelia) to the sultry synth-pop of We Are Science (2002), the lush, baroque Exaltation Of Larks (2007) and the eclectic, rootsy drama of Room 7½ (2009).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SA Recordings","offers":[{"title":"Green | LP | x2","offer_id":50516451459403,"sku":"1126938","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/583da0bb-5ccb-4aef-9da4-0da8111dc944_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727942025"},{"product_id":"subconsciousology-lomond-campbell-remixes","title":"Subconsciousology (Lomond Campbell Remixes)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSubconsciousology\u003c\/em\u003e is a full reworking of Dot Allison’s 2023’s \u003cem\u003eConsciousology,\u003c\/em\u003e by producer Lomond Campbell, who, as the title suggests, has made it deeper, darker and dancier.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhereas the original album was all ornate avant-garde folk and psychedelic explorations, this new take is as hard-hitting as it is heavenly, as beat-driven as it is beautiful, and crucially it finds Dot re-embracing the electronic music with which she first made her name in One Dove.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I love that Lomond has brought a rich musicality and has created wild universes around the elements he has chosen to retain in the various songs,” adds Dot. “It reminds me of working with Andrew Weatherall in a way, where the mixes were bold and reinventive departures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The whole concept of the original record is about interconnectivity and the electromagnetic aspects to consciousness, so the remixed version is like a rainbow diffracted from a beam of light.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEverything in this pot of gold sounds and feels at once familiar but different – from the chugging electro of ‘Unchanged’ and ‘Bleached By The Sun’, to the almost absurd, Aphex Twin-like shock of ‘220Hz’ and the closer ‘Weeping Roses’, which is twisted from a Tim Hardin-style lament into the most unlikely acid house banger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Dot has a real knack for creating striking melodies that hit quickly and stay with you,” says Lomond. “I tried to build different chord structures around those vocal lines, re-harmonising to take it to darker places.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklisting:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e1.Shyness Of Crowns (Lomond Campbell Remix)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2.Unchanged (Lomond Campbell Remix)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e3.Bleached By The Sun (Lomond Campbell Remix)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e4.Moon Flowers (Lomond Campbell Remix)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e5.220Hz (Lomond Campbell Remix)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e6.Double Rainbow (Lomond Campbell Remix)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e7.Milk And Honey (Lomond Campbell Remix)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e8.Mother Tree (Lomond Campbell Remix)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e9.Weeping Roses (Lomond Campbell Remix)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Sonic Cathedral","offers":[{"title":"LP - Pollination Splatter","offer_id":51972699193675,"sku":"R0230-7293","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/DotAllisonSubconsciousologycover.jpg?v=1749227805"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_63340f5b_thumbnail_4096_c2e18e06-692d-4f55-bdd0-eae4be47f62c.jpg?v=1727055700","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/dot-allison.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}