At just 25, dodie has already done a lot of living. Some of that has played out on camera as she made a name for herself as a singer and writer online, amassing millions of fans with her disarmingly honest videos and affecting, intimate singing style. She headlined and sold out London’s Roundhouse before her first album was even out, played the Hollywood Palladium and Terminal 5 on the other side of the pond and scored two top-ten EPs. dodie doesn’t tend to rest on her laurels with Build A Problem having now gone onto reaching No.3 in the UK Albums Charts.
“I think for some people if you kind of boiled down an idea of me, it might be ‘just a girl with a ukulele’ which I’m really bugged by,” she says of her online beginnings. An understandable irritant when you delve into her work; on Build A Problem she has matured into an exceptional musician, using eldritch modes (for example, Lydian mode - a seven-note scale that originated in ancient Greece and underpins many Gregorian chants), writing complex string arrangements and imbuing each song with a sense of charming intimacy.
BESPOKE/SYNC:
- dodie was commissioned to write a bespoke piece for the Moomin Valley film (see below)
- dodie was recently brought on as a composer to write for season 3 for the Netflix Animated Series ‘Final Space’. Throughout various episodes, dodie as a multi-instrumentalist, arranged string and piano parts with the show’s other composers and wrote, recorded, and arranged the music for two key moments in the series. ‘The Day Will Come’, which is used in the announcement trailer for the series and ‘At Last’ which is the final track played at the end of the series.
At Last: https://twitter.com/FinalSpace...
The Day Will Come: https://twitter.com/FinalSpace...
An orginal composition by Dodie for the Moomin Valley film.