Doctors & Dealers is a one-woman band based in Stockholm

Stockholm

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, Sweden

Sweden

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. The principal member is Sparrow Lindgren who frequently works with collaborator Anders Lager on recordings and several additional band members when playing live shows.

Biography

Sparrow Lindgren was born and raised in the south of Sweden where she raised and traded show-jumping horses. Her first experiences as a musician came as an occasional trumpet player for Scottish band Allister. In 2004, she started Southside Stalkers with collaborator and musical partner Indy Neidell and after moving to Stockholm in 2006, founded Doctors & Dealers as her solo project.

Musical career

Singing in English, Sparrow recorded the Doctors & Dealers debut album, Confessions of a Drunken Mind, entirely at home and released it herself on her own Bluesong label in Sweden in 2007. By the time the album earned a worldwide release on April 22, 2008, Sparrow, a/k/a Doctors & Dealers, was in a real studio working on a follow-up and planning a U.S. tour.

After having sold out all copies of her first album, Doctors & Dealers greeted 2009 with her sophomore release, Lost Friends and Newfound Habits which was released one year, almost to the day, after Doctors & Dealers' debut. The album featured collaborations with Anders Lager as well as a duet with James Huggins III (Of Montreal

Of Montreal

Of Montreal is an American rock band from Athens, Georgia. It was founded by frontman Kevin Barnes in 1996, named after a failed romance with a woman "of Montreal." The band is one of the bands of the Elephant 6 collective...

, James Husband

James Husband

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). The album received 4/5 from AllMusic and was featured as an AMG Album Pick.

On December 10, 2010, Doctors & Dealers released Trouble EP, produced by Gordon Raphael

Gordon Raphael

Gordon Raphael is a record producer and musician from Seattle, Washington and New York, currently working in San Antonio, Texas.Gordon Raphael is most widely known for his work with The Strokes, whom he met while attending one of their very first shows at Luna Lounge on the Lower East Side, New...

. The EP, featuring three tracks from upcoming album Every Sinner Has A Future as well as one exclusive non-album track, was well received, garnering radio play worldwide and strong praise from online bloggers.

In spring 2011, Doctors & Dealers will release her third album Every Sinner Has A Future, also produced by Gordon Raphael

Gordon Raphael

Gordon Raphael is a record producer and musician from Seattle, Washington and New York, currently working in San Antonio, Texas.Gordon Raphael is most widely known for his work with The Strokes, whom he met while attending one of their very first shows at Luna Lounge on the Lower East Side, New...

 and recorded in one month. The album title is inspired by an Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...

 quote.

Doctors & Dealers has been praised by Scarlett Johansson

Scarlett Johansson

Scarlett Johansson is an American actress, model and singer.Johansson made her film debut in North and was later nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead for her performance in Manny & Lo . She rose to further prominence with her roles in The Horse Whisperer and Ghost World...

 and Pete Doherty

Pete Doherty

Peter Doherty is an English musician, writer, actor, poet and artist. He is best known musically for being co-frontman of The Libertines, which he reformed with Carl Barât in 2010. His other musical project is indie band Babyshambles...

 and has garnered comparisons to Regina Spektor

Regina Spektor

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 and Kimya Dawson

Kimya Dawson

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Studio albums

Confessions of a Drunken Mind

Released April 22, 2008

Lost Friends and Newfound Habits

Released April 21, 2009

Trouble EP

Released December 10, 2010

Every Sinner Has A Future

To be released spring 2011