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“Part of me believes that if I honour what it is that makes me capable of making songs she loves listening to, I can never really lose her. Doris Club is where she lives in me… and the joy it has been to keep us both alive this way.”

— “Doris Club Is A Daughter, Trying To Keep Her Mother Alive Forever”, a short essay that elicited bouts of tears (from both Doris and Daughter, unsurprisingly)

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"The Movie" (Live Performance)

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Doris has suffered from trigeminal neuralgia for most of her life—over 40 years now—a nerve condition that transmits extreme pain to her face. she tells me it feels like hot knives, or an electric shock. on good days we celebrate her being able to enjoy her food. The bad days can last months… one time she didn’t sleep for 40 days straight because the pain was so bad. she has death envy when she hears about people dying quick, painless deaths, and jokes about not wanting to live too long. if I was god I’d make it go away, but I’m not, so you gotta wake up Mum ❤️‍🩹

Wake Up (If I Was God) — Doris Club, out now on all streaming platforms

written by Doris Club and Josh Wei produced by Jordan Blackmon, Josh Wei, Greg Cortez mixed by James Riotto at Altamira Sound mastered by Alex Dobbert

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There's Still Time (Side A), 2023

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“Intuitive, Irrational, Melancholic” — by Sophie Severs at Atwood Magazine

“There’s Still Time (Side A), is a testament to the fierce bonds Doris has cultivated throughout her lifetime. Procured by her daughter who, careful not to eclipse the overarching purpose of the project, has briefly taken a step back into anonymity away from her preexisting artist project and assumed the alias of Doris Club.

Having become well acquainted with the idea of her mother’s death at the young age of 10, Doris Club grew up preempting loss; twiddling her thumbs in terror and quickly wiping away the tears that had welled up in the corner of her eyes.

“I was sensitive to the passage of time from a young age. The gentle, candid nature with which my mother talked to me about death and impermanence made a zealous disciple of the moment, obsessive hoarder of memories out of me — this was the conclusion I came to while making this record. I’ve feared time as much as I’ve worshipped it. Side A looks back, and is an offering to the source of my sentimentalism.””

Full piece on @atwoodmagazine@soapyseafloors

Photography by @jasminerutledge

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Vanda Miss Joaquim (Side A), 2023 — doris loves orchids. the vanda miss joaquim blooms all year round, under the right conditions…