Sloppy Jane is an American

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/ rock music band fronted by Haley Dahl based in Brooklyn, New York. The band released their breakthrough second studio album ''

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'' in 2021, through Saddest Factory Records, an imprint owned by their former bassist

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. Dahl is known for her eccentric

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style which used to include nudity.

Career

Early Career (2009-2015) Haley Dahl was born in 1995 in

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and raised in

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. It was in the latter city that she formed Sloppy Jane at the age of fifteen, performing up and down the

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. As an experiment she wore one suit for an entire year without washing it, vowing to wear it until it "rots off her body" and now intends to eat it. In 2014, Sloppy Jane released two demos ''Totally Limbless'' and ''Burger Radio'' with the line-up of Haley Dahl on lead vocals and guitar, Phoebe Bridgers on bass and background vocals, and Imogen Teasley-Vlautin on drums. They released their debut

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''Sure-Tuff'' on July 14, 2015 through Lolipop Records. This release saw the addition of Sara Catherine on guitar. ''Sure-Tuff'' was inspired by both

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and

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music. Willow (2017-2019) Their debut studio album ''Willow'' was self-released on March 23, 2018. For this album Sloppy Jane was a duo, with Dahl performing vocals, guitar, piano, and bass, and Sara Catherine playing drums as well as additional guitar and vocals. This album was recorded in Los Angeles. ''Willow'' also featured non-members Charlene Huang and April Guthrie on violin and cello respectively. Musically, it is an

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and punk rock album that "reflected a shift toward more playful, theatrical songs involving instruments like glockenspiel and flexatone, spoken word samples, and crowd noise". Following its release, Dahl moved back to her hometown of New York City. Madison (2020-Present) On September 9, 2021 Sloppy Jane signed to the band's former bassist Phoebe Bridgers' Saddest Factory Records. Their second studio album ''

'' was released on November 5 of the same year. Starting in 2017 Dahl had ambitions of recording in a cave. Because of this, she started spelunking in 2019, looking for a cave that had the right acoustics and would be willing to let her record. The album was set to record in late 2019, this was however delayed when Dahl was attacked walking to her apartment in Brooklyn on September 10, 2019, leaving her with cuts and stitches. The recording of the album finally began in the spring of 2020. ''Madison'' had two release shows where the album was played in full. One in Brooklyn on November 7, 2021 and one in Los Angeles on December 3, 2021. Following these performances the band opened for Iceage in February and March 2022. The band then went on to play SXSW on March 16 for the saddestfactory showcase and then after opened for a few shows on Phoebe Bridgers’ tour in May. Sloppy Jane then went on their Madison Tour October and November 2022. These shows were black tie required. For the one year anniversary of ''Madison'' the band released the 7” vinyl “My Misery Will Bury You” featuring two versions of “Wilt”, the Madison version and a cover done by Phoebe Bridgers in 2015. Following the year of touring, Dahl moved to Cerro Gordo, an abandoned mining town in the Owens Valley near Lone Pine, California. Dahl, along with other members of the mining town project, have ambitions of building a recording studio in the town for musicians to use.

Members

Rotating live members

*Haley Dahl – lead vocals, guitar, piano, bass *Al Nardo – guitar, glockenspiel, drums, vocals *Bailey Wollowitz – drums, trumpet, synths, percussion, guitar, vocals *Lily Rothman – keyboards, flute, guitar, vocals *Lily Desmond – violin, vocals *Ruby Wang - violin *Sean Brennan – cello *Nicolette Miller – vocals *Nathan Lopez – guitar, glockenspiel *Jackie Cohen – vocals *Abby Lim-Kimberg – harp, vocals *Isabella Bustanoby - viola, bass, vocals *Raina Bock – bass *Fern Perera – violin *Khalil Long - trumpet

Past members

*Emma Stacher – bass, vocals *Noor Al-Samarrai - background vocals *Avishag Cohen-Rodriguez – guitar *Joseph Sutkwoski – guitar *Jack Wetmore – bass , guitar *Tamar Jusidman - background vocals *Katie Vreeland – bass *

– bass, background vocals *Imogen Teasley-Vlautin – drums, background vocals *Sara Catherine – guitar, drums, guitar, background vocals *Ember Knight – bass, background vocals

Discography

Studio albums

Demo albums

Extended plays

Singles

Music videos

References

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