DOLLS ON FIRE SET THE HEARTLAND ABALZE WITH DEBUT LP

Ladies and gentlemen, meet Dolls on Fire, a new synth-pop band with old roots in the Kansas City music scene.  Driven by a mix of guitars, buzzing keyboards and harmonized vocals,  Dolls on Fire’s debut LP, Ladies and Gentlemen..., carves out a unique sound, one that owes as much to the dance floor as the rock club. The songs rock and roll in equal measure – evoking comparisons to the Neon Trees one minute, and Portishead the next; and anyone intrigued can check out the band on November 12, when Dolls On Fire officially release their album.

Dolls on Fire recorded Ladies and Gentlemen... in the band’s own studio, with virtually no outside assistance. “It is a true DIY effort – self-recorded, self-produced, self-mixed, self-mastered,” explains front man Zach Hodson, who shares lead vocals with Rachel Jaggard. “If we had duplication equipment, we would have done that ourselves as well.”

Few new bands are so self-sufficient, but Dolls on Fire -- whose lineup also includes Michelle Bacon and Mark Johnson -- aren’t exactly newcomers. Hodson and Jaggard both cut their teeth with The Threes, a multi-national pop band that dominated Kansas City’s music scene for five years. Bacon and Johnson are old pros, too, having toured across the heartland with several other acts. Together, the four musicians have nearly two decades of combined experience... and yet Dolls on Fire is still a young band, which lends a sense of urgency to these seven songs.

“We have music in our bones where the marrow should be,” Hodson says. “Music is the thing we have to look forward to, the thing we have to dream about, the thing that we truly wake up for the next day. It is how we think, how we cope, how we evaluate, how we live.”

Ladies And Gentlemen... is the soundtrack for that way of living, a collection of songs anchored by grooves and guitars, beats and bass, drums and drama.  But make no mistake—as with all good bands, there is a strong emphasis on the song being a focal point.  “This band (and in particular, this record) is a celebration of the fact that the song comes first,” said Hodson.  “What it needs is what we do.  All sense of self and ego is checked at the door.”

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