Showcase: Dollmaker (GR)

Dollmaker is the musical moniker of fully independent Greek South African indie rock / alternative pop singer-songwriter and producer Chloé-Marie Kikillus.

Currently based in Athens, she 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, dollmaker’s incisive lyrics spare no personal accounts from tongue-in-cheek scrutiny or sociocultural critique.
Released in April 2024, her debut album ‘In Freefall I Feel Like You’ earned her features in local media, including Beater and Avopolis, and indie radio play from Greece’s own Strummer and Palestine’s Radio Alhara as far as WXNA 101.5 Nashville.

Since her sold-out first full-band show last November, she’s been laying low to work on a second album under her eternal motto – wholehearted audiolovesnark.