This weekend brought with it the news Anton Newcombe and Dot Allison are to release an album under the moniker All Seeing Dolls. To give us a glimpse of what to expect from Parallel, out next year, they share the gorgeous single ‘That’s Amazing Grace’ .
The pair previously worked together on ‘Bringing Murder to the Land” from the television series Annika in 2021. Newcombe remixed Allison’s ‘Cue The Tears’ the following year for her Heart-Shaped Scars The Entangled Remix EP.
Anton Newcombe is the founder, the sole constant and the creative mastermind at the centre of one of music’s most fascinating bands, Brian Jonestown Massacre. He’s a frontman, songwriter, composer, studio owner, multi-instrumentalist, producer, engineer, father and force of nature. There have been 21 BJM albums over the last 30 years, each embarking on their own mind-expanding adventure and exploring the outer realms of rock’n’roll; psychedelic rock, country-blues, snarling rock’n’roll, blissed-out noise-pop and more. Newcombe has established himself as a once-in-a-lifetime talent, a revolutionary force in modern music and an underground hero.
You can read our interview with him about the most recent BJM record, last year’s The Future Is Your Past.
Dot Allison released her debut solo album Afterglow in 1999. Over the years she has strived to keep the listener on a journey – and herself too. She revolts against what she has done before, to evolve and not just occupy the same space.
That journey has taken her from Afterglow’s broad church (trip-hop, Tim Buckley-esque ballads, dance tracks, chilled psychedelia to the sultry synth-pop of We Are Science (2002), the lush, baroque Exaltation Of Larks (2007) and the eclectic, rootsy drama of Room 7½ (2009). After a hiatus to raise her family she returned with the graceful acoustic folk record Heart-Shaped Scars (2021) and the haunting, barely-there beauty of Consciousology (2023). The range of guest stars on Allison’s records is equally broad: where else would you find a cast list that includes Kevin Shields, Hal David, Paul Weller, Pete Doherty and Darren Emerson.
Allison’s own guest roles with the likes of Massive Attack, Scott Walker, Slam, Philip Shepard, The Babyshambles & Pete Doherty, underlining the huge respect in which her peers hold her.
‘That’s Amazing Grace’ backed with ‘Siren’s Echo iron Lung’‘ by All Seeing Dolls is out in 10″ vinyl format via A Records this coming Friday 11 October. Parallel is released February 2025.
