About dodie:
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, packaging her refl ections on everything from falling in love and breaking up to comparison culture and struggles with depression. But she couldn’t quite fi nd the thread that tied all of these intimate portraits of her life together; that was until she fi nally 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 fi gure it out,” she explains.
After that breakthrough, dodie wrote the pensive title track as a natural coda to a record which fi nds 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 fi nal moments. “It was one of those songs that feels like it’s already written, so you’re trying to fi nd it,” she says.
For over a decade now dodie has been the fi ercely honest voice of a generation growing up in a hyper-digital world seeking to understand their own journeys with mental health, relationships, sexuality and all the imperfect in-betweens. With the early years of her career unfolding on camera with a ukulele in tow for masses of devoted fans online, her fi rst three independently released EPs — Intertwined, You and Human — all entered the UK top 40, with the latter two breaking the top 10.
