Dolly Varden - The Panic Bell

It’s been four years since the last installment of Dolly Varden music, but The Panic Bell arrives with the key elements of the band’s music wholly intact.

Songwriter Steve Dawson has an unerring capacity for finding the caveat in joy and desolation, in light and darkness. His voice thins and strains with compelling force; partner Diane Christiansen's is here a fragile ache, there a soothing croon of reassurance; and when they sing together, the two create an entirely new whole.

The band moves seamlessly from the delicate, folky sound of Small Pockets and the Stones-tinged rock of You Never Will to the guitar-and-harp wail of Triumph Mine, Idaho and the gorgeous pop of It's All Gonna Change, all the while managing to inhabit the music with a simmering, barely contained intensity.

The Panic Bell serves notice that Dolly Varden continues to make pop music that is seductive, transcendent and peerless. ~ Harp Magazine

• Complete Resistance
• Everything
• All Gonna Change
• Small Pockets
• The Truth is Told
• You Never Will
• Sad Panda Clown's Lament
• Triumph Mine, Idaho
• Your Last Mistake
• Good Provider