Douglas Dare

Encouraged by their mother, a piano teacher, Douglas Dare composed instrumental music as a child growing up in the small coastal town of Bridport, England. They didn’t take up songwriting until 2008, but their elegant piano songs have drawn comparisons to Thom Yorke and James Blake and attracted the attention of Erased Tapes.

Their third and most stripped back studio album to date ‘Milkteeth’ was produced by Mike Lindsay – founding member of Tuung and one half of LUMP with Laura Marling – and has firmly established Douglas as a serious 21st-century singer-songwriter with an enduring lyrical poise and elegant minimalist sound.

In 2017 they were commissioned to create a tribute to Leonard Cohen for an exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum of Montréal which toured in the USA and Europe throughout 2020 and 2021. Since then their music has been featured in a host of dance arrangements, commercials, and television shows, and they have also written scores for documentaries, including the documentary film: Storyboard P.

In 2024 Douglas Dare released ‘Omni’ in collaboration with their label mate Daniel Brandt, marking an artistic shift from the piano-led sound to an electronic dance era. ‘Omni’ is all at once a throbbing, avant-garde, queer, dark and cinematic record imbued with a love of rave culture and sense of fearless storytelling that’s deeply evocative.

Photo: Fran Gomez de Villaboa