ABOUT MEDOLLIC

Channeling the restless spirit of 90s alternative folk-rock, Medollic is where acoustic confession meets electric catharsis. With content crafted from literary bones and pop-culture debris, this is intimate storytelling amplified through biting guitars and crushed velvet textures.

 

Fifteen years after their debut, Dollhouse [Deluxe Edition] revisits the master recordings with deep sonic revisions and a previously unreleased bonus track from the original sessions. The result feels both nostalgic and immediate: from the hypnotic momentum of ‘Human’, the grimy grit of ‘Breaking Days’, to the anthemic heights of ‘Pieces’, the raw drive of the titular offering, and the sweet comedown of ‘Paper Planes’.

 

Dollhouse plumbs themes of identity, resistance, and the type of wretchedly irrepressible love that holds up in the vacuum of space. These aren’t love songs or protest songs — they’re field notes from inside the machine. Patriarchal persistence, ecological evanescence, digital disconnection — interwoven with acoustic threads and overdriven guitars.

Medollic in Melbourne, 2022. (L-R: Steve Pope, Lix North, James North) Photo Credit: Lix North

Formed in Brisbane, in 2007 by producer/multi-instrumentalist James North, vocalist Lix North and drummer Steve Pope, Medollic have toured internationally with City Showcase as well as performing at home in Australia. 

 

James — whose credits include Kahl Wallis (The Medics), Sam Hale (The Jungle Giants), Karise Eden (The Voice), Royston Noell (Australian Idol) — is the production and instrumental backbone, building the tracks from the ground up. Lix twists and toys with metaphor and allegory — a natural extension of her creative practice as a visual artist (Melbourne/LA). Stevo (Angus & Julia Stone, Kate Miller-Heidke, Darren Hayes) drives each track with texture, power and precision.

 

“Intelligent and innately listenable…” – Sonicbids.com

 

“Elusive melodies and sweet vocals… from the very first track you can hear the beauty in Lix’s voice.” – Paige X. Cho (FasterLouder/MTV/Rolling Stone)

 

“The songs, the instrumentation, the vocals, the lyrics, the melodies, the production… all are exquisite.” – Derry Wootton, PlasticHassle/britpopnews.com 

 

“New Medollic fans will find an odd sense of familiarity. Think of their music as an old friend you never knew you had but, once reunited, you never want to let go.” – NimrodStreet.com

Medollic at The Powerhouse, Brisbane, 2009. (L-R: Lix North, Steve Pope, James North) Photo: Nic Suzor

Footnote (for those who’ve made it this far down the page): Of the aforementioned love, after meeting in studio in 2006, forming Medollic in 2007, and marrying in 2015, James and Lix remain to this day, happily wretched and irrepressible.

WHAT'S IN A NAME?

Underneath the world, in the Land of the Long White Cloud, there lived a guitar, a girl and a pervicacious imagination. They drew the days, wrote the nights into songs and sheltered in the twixt of dreams and the elusive real.

 

One day, beyond the great sea, they came upon two boys. One with a room filled with wondrous instruments and hands that knew how to play them. The other whose simple wooden sticks could make the world turn in time. The girl laughed because she thought they were magnificent! She began to speak to them in haste of ‘melodic’ things but her lips tripped on the word and what fell out instead was “Medollic”.

WHAT'S IN A NAME?

Underneath the world, in the Land of the Long White Cloud, there lived a guitar, a girl and a pervicacious imagination. They drew the days, wrote the nights into songs and sheltered in the twixt of dreams and the elusive real.
One day, beyond the great sea, they fell upon two boys. One with a room filled with wondrous instruments and hands that knew how to play them. The other whose simple wooden sticks could make the world turn in time. She laughed because she thought they were magnificent and began in haste to speak to them of ‘melodic’ things. But her lips tripped on the word and what fell out instead was “Medollic”.