"i'm a boy" "i'm a girl" ok?? well i am your arm of execution??? i am the trigger of your gun???? i am the binding and the order?????? my duty to you has begun???????
Taking place after the Bonfire of the Dolls (end of Act lll), Eclipse is a haunted doll- once one of hundreds, but now one of the few left not condemned to the purging bonfires that consumed New Albion. The two spirits inhabiting this doll don’t remember their name in life, or who it was that called them back up, but they each answer to Sun and Moon respectively depending on the time of day. When it’s Sun speaking through the radio in their chest, the volume turns up and the channels skip sporadically. Moon tends to stick to short clips of a single channel, but with a terrible, gravely quality to the sound.
You, on the other hand, are an enforcer. It’s your job to find stray dolls (and disobedient citizens) and to put them down. But when you come across this strange celestial doll, something about them gives you pause… now you’re the very kind of fugitive you were meant to hunt down, hiding this haunted doll and trying to unravel the mystery of their dual existence and their obscured past.
Already gone through the entire discography five times? Looking for something new? Well, boy do I have something for you!
THE DOLLS OF NEW ALBION: A STEAMPUNK OPERA by Paul Shapera
On Spotify!
We've got:
Jasper, the KING of haunting the narrative
Hubris of man. SO so much hubris
Necromancy! In the name of love! Twice! (but its a lil bit more fucked up the second time around)
Voodoopunk, which is an absolutely BANGER of a concept and boy does it ever deliver
Lore. So much lore. The world building in this album is amazing it all just feels so real without being imposing or clunky
Incredible use of recurring musical themes and motifs that can and will break your heart and blow your mind
Two sequels, its first in the New Albion trilogy! (Not to mention the extensive discography this guy has how he wrote so much I'll never know)
Please listen to Dolls Of New Albion I need to see it get more attention I've been progressively losing my mind over this thing and have no one to talk to about it there's no one in the tag
WWDITS prosthetics and animatronics wizard Paul Jones gave an interview to Below the Line where he discusses his career, designing Nadja doll, and drops some teases for season 5! Sounds like the bat wings Guillermo was sporting in the poster will make an appearance during the season: