YouTube musician Dodie hits hard with debut album 'Build a Problem'

Just a little over ten years ago, English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Dorothy Clark, known mononymously as Dodie (stylized all lowercase as “dodie”), posted her first original song on a promising new platform called YouTube. Today she boasts over 2.8 million subscribers and 400 million views between her two Youtube channels, doddleoddle and doddlevloggle, three EPs and now a full studio album. “Build a Problem,” released on Friday, May 7, experienced a few release pushbacks, mostly due to COVID-19 travel restrictions hindering an official physical release. Though the final mixes of the tracks were completed by the end of 2020, bureaucratic roadblocks prevented Dodie from releasing the album in its entirety until recently. The four singles released before Friday — “Cool Girl,” “Rainbow,” “Hate Myself” and “I Kissed Someone (It Wasn’t You),” in chronological order — provided constant buzz for the unreleased content. Dodie seems at her most mature in these songs, perhaps as someone who has seen much more of life than her previous iterations. A razor-sharp intentionality cuts through every track on the album; there isn’t a wasted moment, lyric or note to be found anywhere. In the style of all good writing, Dodie’s lyrics are concise and not…
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