Songwriter, Vocalist, Guitaris

Dolly Mavies doesn’t write songs for daylight. She writes for the hours when the world goes quiet, when thoughts get louder, when the line between dreams and nightmares starts to blur...

A self-made force out of Oxfordshire with roots echoing through South Wales, Mavies crafts music that feels like wandering home at 3am under a sky full of stars.

Often dubbed the Buffy the Vampire Slayer of the music world, she fuses dark, atmospheric storytelling with raw punch-you-in-the-gut honesty, and lyrics that stand the test of time.

This is the sound of the post-folk movement taking shape: alternative rock grit colliding with folk intimacy and dream-pop haze, creating something both deeply personal and impossibly vast.

Her voice, ethereal yet unflinching, floats somewhere between the haunting fragility of Daughter and the soaring power of Florence & The Machine, with a subtle nod to Ben Howard’s textured musicality, and Patti Smith lyrical wisdom. But Mavies isn’t following a blueprint; she’s building her own world. One moment, she’s delivering riotous, fist-clenched anthems; the next, she pulls you into delicate, late-night lullabies that feel almost too honest to hear.

Her debut album The Calm and The Storm has already drawn critical acclaim, earning support from BBC Introducing, BBC 6 Music, and Absolute Radio, marking her as an artist impossible to ignore.

Dolly Mavies is not here to fit into a genre. She’s here to haunt it, reshape it, and leave something lasting in its wake.

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