Not For Lack Of Trying dodie

• 1 I’M FINE! 03:00
• 2 Smart Girl 02:57
• 3 Darling, Angel, Baby 02:36
• 4 Hold Fire 02:56
• 5 Tall Kids 03:37
• 6 I Feel Bad For You, Dave 03:03
• 7 Now 02:59
• 8 The List 03:47
• 9 Different 02:46
• 10 The End 05:02
• 11 The Answer 03:21
• 12 Not For Lack Of Trying 02:05
• Total Runtime 38:09

Info for Not For Lack Of Trying

When dodie was just about done writing her remarkable sophomore album, Not For Lack Of Trying, she still found herself searching for answers. She’d spent the last three years turning inwards to pen what would become the “sibling’” to her acclaimed 2021 debut Build A Problem (which landed at #3 on the UK official album chart), packaging her reflections on everything from falling in love and breaking up to comparison culture and struggles with depression. But she couldn’t quite find the thread that tied all of these intimate portraits of her life together; that was until she finally landed on a title that gave her the clarity she was seeking. “Not For Lack Of Trying is so simple, so sad and it really painted this picture of all these songs, of me trying to figure it out,” she explains. After that breakthrough, dodie wrote the pensive title track as a natural coda to a record which finds the North London-born singer-songwriter striving for meaning in a challenging chapter of her life. “Lend me joy I can’t see mine / But not for lack of trying,” she declares in the grounding final moments. “It was one of those songs that feels like it's already written, so you're trying to find it,” she says. Written mostly between London and Los Angeles and produced alongside Joe Rubel (Maisie Peters, Griff, Sigrid), Not For Lack Of Trying finds dodie learning to be patient with her own process, trusting that she’ll find the words when the timing is right. “I think I've finally learned now that the way I write is just very different. I just need to have so much more patience with myself — it just takes the time that it takes.”

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Dorothy Miranda Clark aka dodie
At just 27, dodie has already done a lot of living. Some of that has played out online as she made a name for herself as a singer and writer, amassing millions of fans with her disarmingly honest videos and affecting, intimate singing style. She currently sits at 2.5 million monthly listeners on Spotify, has scored two top-ten EP's headline and sold our London's Roadhouse, and the Hollywood Palladium and New York's Terminal 5, and become an ambassador for depersonalisation charity Unreal.

Born in Essex, England, dodie got her start online as a musician in 2011 and now maintains a massive YouTube community with a combined 2.8 million subscribers and over 430 million views, made up of a range of intimate demos, life musings, and fully produced songs and sessions. Her distinct and identifiable soft vocals, lush harmonies and sparse production style, often built from the ukulele, has inspired a wave of new singer-songwriters. In addition to her own work, dodie has collaborated with the likes of Jacob Collier, Julia Nunes, Orla Gartland, Emma Blackery, and other creative contemporaries.

Dodie has released three independent EPs—Intertwined (2016), You (2017), and Human (2019)—all of which charted within the top 40 of the official UK Albums Chart. Her debut studio album Build a Problem is due for release on March 5, 2021.

dodie's Kala ukuleles have been with her for every step of her musical journey, including her first international tour. In 2018, our team of Kala Elite USA builders made her a custom baritone ukulele that has remained one of her most frequently used writing and recording partners.

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