Brooklyn’s Like a Doll, the project of musician Emma Stacher, shares another preview of their forthcoming debut album, “Don’t Throw Your Words.” The shimmering track offers listeners a look inside the band’s dollhouse ahead of the self-titled record’s release on Friday, November 10, 2023. The song is available now at all DSPs.
“This feels like an anthem to believe in yourself,” says Emma Stacher, vocalist, guitarist, and leader of Like a Doll.”It jolts you from slower to faster and swings to reflect the back and forth of birthing self-confidence. The lyric ‘Don’t throw your words out’ repeats in the chorus with the overall message emphasizing how important our thoughts and voices are.”
A whimsical lullaby rock project fronted and arranged by Emma Stacher, New York City-based Like a Doll takes you on a magical dreamlike journey with the sounds of bells, questions, water, and more and more and more and more…
Emma began forming a live band for the project in 2022 and it evolved into a group almost completely composed of all childhood friends; Isabella Dafonseca and Gabriel Paiano on drums, Daniel Barbrack on bass/synth and Adrian Dilulio on guitar along with Leah Beck on synth, who Emma met at a party in early 2020. Growing up in the East Village, as kids the friends played everything from Ozzy Osborne to Guns and Roses together before parting ways to study music at schools like Berklee College, The New School and Purchase College. The formation of Like a Doll marks a new beginning, but also acts as a reunion of old friends who have been playing on and off together for over a decade.
“The name “Like a Doll” comes from the anxiety of feeling like a doll. I wanted to turn this sensation which comes from a traumatic childhood into something positive,” says Emma. “I call it whimsical dissociation. I felt the need to reclaim my inner child and lean into being childlike in a way that I wasn’t able to. I push into that lyrically through nursery rhyme-like phrases, chords that evoke the sound of a question, and sounds that pull you out of the present into a journey. I want my music to bring you to a place where you can be contemplative, meditative and safe.”
