The infamous Kickstarter record. I’d been sitting on these songs for almost five years by the time I finally put a new band – the grand theft orchestra – together to make this record. The string and horn orchestrations are all by the bassist, Jherek Bischoff, and there’s only one solo piano song on it: the bed song. This record came out when I was 36. The oldest song on the record is Berlin (my old stripper name). I wrote that one in my mid-twenties, and it never found its way into the dresden dolls collection. It finally found a home with this band.
released on: 8ft Records
suggested tracks: The Killing Type, Do It With a Rockstar, Want It Back, The Bed Song, Melody Dean, Bottomfeeder