dollhouse is the self-produced debut album from New York City indie rock five-piece Slow Fiction. Across 11 tracks, the band explores identity as something both private and performed, tracing the uneasy space between who we are alone and who we become when observed by other people, the internet, or ourselves.
The album took shape over years of live shows and repeated rewrites before recording began in August 2025. Slow Fiction carried the songs through a Brooklyn rehearsal space, an upstate New York retreat, and an ocean-facing studio north of San Francisco, allowing each setting to leave its mark. The band produced the record themselves, with Sonny DiPerri handling the final mixes and Carl Saff mastering.
Musically, dollhouse moves between propulsive indie rock and more expansive, layered arrangements. The band points to Yo La Tengo and Broken Social Scene as touchstones for the album’s atmosphere, while songs such as “what the night told me” push toward a cinematic sweep that recalls The Cranberries and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Latest single “turning down flowers” closes the album with a slow-building six-minute release, surrounding Julia Vassallo’s vulnerable lyricism with mounting tension and cathartic noise.
dollhouse arrives August 7, 2026 via Tight Knit Records.
