[1][2][3] Dollanganger's music is characterized by a feminine, high-pitched vocal style, minimalist instrumentation, and lyrical themes frequently pertaining to true crime, violence, sexuality, and romance.
[6][7][8][9] In 2015, Rolling Stone named Dollanganger in an article titled "10 New Artists You Need to Know", stating that her "gothic folk songs" described as "macabre millennial nightmares, softened by dream-pop tranquilizers, reverberating from a casket-shaped music box", are "as beautiful as they are brutal.
"[Curdled Milk]'s creation coincided with an illness I was battling, and right after I released it, I went on bed rest for a year & completely shut the world out.
In 2015, Dollanganger, alongside Canadian singer and musician Grimes, opened for American singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey at a Toronto concert.
[24] In March 2016, Dollanganger's song "Chapel" (which would later be included on her 2018 album Heart Shaped Bed, released on Grimes' record label Eerie Organization, which had since been renamed Crystal Math Music) was featured in the fourteenth episode of the sixth season of the television series The Walking Dead, "Twice as Far".
[25] Later, from August to September 2016, Dollanganger embarked on a co-headlining tour across the United States with bands Elvis Depressedly and Teen Suicide.
[27] In May 2017, she collaborated with grindcore band Full of Hell by providing clean vocals on the title track of their LP Trumpeting Ecstasy.
[29] In June, she joined Code Orange for select dates for their The New Reality tour, alongside acts Vein and Twitching Tongues.
[30] Later, on October 26, Heart Shaped Bed was properly released and included a newly recorded version of the single "Chapel", produced by Arthur Rizk.
All three singles ended up being included on Dollanganger's seventh studio album titled Married in Mount Airy, which was released on January 6, 2023.