Ottawa-based DOLL vocalist guitarist Christina Abraham Kasper and guitarist/husband Pete Kasper are featured in a new interview discussing their latest album, The Ragdoll Diaries. An excerpt from the story is available below:

Call it a case of “You say tomato and I say tomahto.” Ottawa-based Doll, who officially grabbed the public eye in 2009 with their debut album Inside The Dollhouse, remain steadfast in stamping themselves as a modern day grunge-flavoured act, but my finely-honed musical sensibilities protest. It must be a generational thing, because going into the band’s new album, The Ragdoll Diaries, there’s very little that conjures up visions of the unkempt angst-clenched Vedder / Staley / Cobain-worshipping legions of the ‘90s. Maybe it’s the street-level grit under the band’s proverbial fingernails, but Doll exhibit a healthy aggression delivered with a refreshing punk attitude.

Christina: “We started recording this album over a year ago, in August 2010. We did the first album in two weeks, but for this one we really took our time. We went into the studio a few times a week and worked on songs here and there. We made them perfect; if there was something bugging us about one song we had the time to fix it. The three songs that we put out, we just wanted to get a buzz going and let people know that we were still around and working hard on a new album. I think some people were a bit surprised that we were working on new songs, so they were excited to hear it. We were playing a lot of new material at our live shows, too, so that’s helped get the buzz going as well.”

In spite of the arguable grunge tag, both Christina and guitarist/husband Pete Kasper agree there’s a punk attitude on the album. Turns out it wasn’t intentional…

Pete: “We didn’t do that on purpose. It just kind of manifested itself. We’ve always tried to kind of keep that grunge element in our music, but even last night at a show we did there was a guys that told us we’ve created a sort of modern grunge sound. I think that makes the most sense to us, because we didn’t want to copy the ‘90s sound even though we’ve always listened to that kind of stuff. We wanted to have those raw elements, but give it a 2011 sound. From what we’ve been hearing I think we did a pretty good job of that on the new album.”

Christina: “The first album has punk songs, metal songs, rock songs… this new one is a little more concise. It’s us saying ‘This is what we want to sound like.’”

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The Ragdoll Diaries was recorded by Jason Jaknunas (BURIED INSIDE, SOULJAZZ ORCHESTRA) and mastered by David Cain (ZEUS, BIG JESUS TRUCK), and features the extremely catchy and empowering track ‘FMO’ as nominated for Music Video of the Year by the 2011 Ottawa Film Festival. The album cover and artwork were created by Kyle Skinner of Siniestro Design. Audio samples are now available via the player below:

Download three tracks from The Ragdoll Diaries for free at this location.

As previously reported, Doll released the video for their new song 'FMO' in mid-July. It can be viewed below.