Slow Fiction are a New York City five-piece featuring vocalist Julia Vassallo, guitarists Paul Knepple and Joseph Skimmons, bassist Ryan Duffin, and drummer Akiva Henig. Built from years of friendship and close collaboration, the band has developed a propulsive strain of indie rock that moves between sharp guitar hooks, expansive textures, and lyrics centered on identity, observation, and the uneasy distance between private life and public performance.
After releasing their self-titled EP in 2023 and the Crush EP in 2024, Slow Fiction began shaping their debut full-length across touring, rehearsals, and recording sessions in Brooklyn, upstate New York, and Northern California. The resulting album, dollhouse, was produced by the band, mixed by Sonny DiPerri, and mastered by Carl Saff. Its layered atmosphere draws from the exploratory approach of Yo La Tengo and Broken Social Scene while retaining the immediacy of a band whose songs have been tested and transformed onstage.
Across dollhouse, Slow Fiction examine the ways identity changes under pressure: when observed by others, filtered through the internet, or reflected back through memory. Latest single “turning down flowers” builds gradually from tense restraint into a sprawling six-minute release, pairing vulnerable lyricism with one of the album’s most expansive arrangements. The album arrives August 7, 2026 via Tight Knit Records.
New York City indie rock five-piece Slow Fiction have shared “turning down flowers,” the latest single from their forthcoming debut album, dollhouse, out August 7 via Tight Knit Records.
The six-minute album closer begins in a moment of quiet restraint before steadily expanding into a layered, cathartic wall of sound. The accompanying video features footage from the band’s recent touring, shot by Samantha Caballero.
Watch the video and stream “turning down flowers” below.
