about
dollmaker is the musical moniker of Greek South African indie rock / alternative pop singer-songwriter and producer Chloé-Marie Kikillus.Currently based in Athens, dollmaker grew up between the untamed garden of a Johannesburg haunted home and the bedazzled HTML of the online dress-up games that raised so many girls in the 2000s.Her distinctive sound combines the digital and kitsch - bedroom-pop production, gauche GarageBand MIDI, and video-game sonics - with poetic songcraft grounded in the voice and acoustic guitar.Inspired in equal parts by romance and cynicism, her incisive lyrics spare no deeply personal accounts from tongue-in-cheek scrutiny and sociocultural critique.
press
Featured in local media including Beater, Avopolis, and Filament, dollmaker has been heard on indie radio from Greece’s own Strummer and Palestine's Radio Alhara as far as WXNA 101.5 Nashville.
releases
Her debut album 'In Freefall I Feel Like You' was released in April 2024 following singles ‘Fare Thee Well, My Little Red-Star Honey’ and ‘Meet Your Heroes (I Want to Believe)’The ten-track DIY-studio hybrid - written, recorded, and produced entirely on her laptop before its perfection at Athens’ Diskex Studios - made waves in Greece's underground scene, finding fangirls (superlative) across the Anglosphere and beyond online.
