Doss Officially Unveils Fan Favorite “Drugs”
Iconic New York artist and producer Doss officially unveils her track “Drugs,” a fan favorite that she’s long teased in DJ sets around the world. It’s out today via Doss’ own multi-hyphenate creative studio Duet in partnership with Warner Records’ flagship dance label Major Recordings.
Doss began work on “Drugs” in 2018 as a flip of the Uffie song of the same name and it has continued to evolve in the years since—with demands from fans for the track’s release growing increasingly rabid.“‘Drugs’ plays with the relationships between extremes; joy and shame, indulgence and affliction, boredom and euphoria. Friends who have left but whose memories live on. Driving around, nothing to do—getting into trouble or good ol’ fun?”
Doss’ first original music of 2023, “Drugs” follows her long-awaited remix of Caroline Polachek’s “Bunny Is A Rider” as well as a sold out headline set at Avant Gardner for Boiler Room last weekend. Tonight, she plays cult N.Y.C. party sksksks’s London debut before returning to the States for select festival sets this summer.
Doss’ much-lauded 2021 EP 4 New Hit Songs was named one of the best EPs of that year by a host of titles including The Guardian, NPR, Pitchfork and Dazed. In the years since she’s put out a handful of singles including last year’s banging “Jumpin’;” 4 New Hit Songs *Remixes featuring her own reimaginings of the EP tracks; remixes for Lady Gaga, A.G. Cook, Eartheater and more; played countless headline shows plus toured with Polachek and Yves Tumor; and so much more.
Raised in Texas and based in New York, Doss made her debut in 2014 on the taste-making label Acephalé with an EP that Pitchfork called “an exploration of the pure joy of sensation.” She made her name as an underground fixture with major supporters in big-name artists. SOPHIE, in particular, was a frequent collaborator, and she counts Lady Gaga, Grimes, Porter Robinson and plenty of others among her friends and champions. Though she prefers to keep her personal life personal, her design sensibility (marked by digital puppies, bubblegum pink vinyl editions, and nostalgic nods to the early internet) has always been a clear part of who she is. In her visuals, as in her music, Doss evokes the playful maximalism of the early 2000s with equal parts sincerity, humor, and mystery.
Press photo, credit James Emmerman