Posts Tagged ‘Golden Doubt’

QUIVERS – ” Hold You Back “

Posted: April 23, 2021 in MUSIC, CLASSIC ALBUMS
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As Melbourne-via-Tasmania outfit Quivers gear up to release their new album, “Golden Doubt”, in June, the four-piece have released their latest single, with “Hold You Back” arriving yesterday. Following on from “Gutters of Love”, Quivers’ new single is a refreshing piece of cinematic indie rock, with the upbeat nature reminiscent of genre heavyweights The Go-Betweens, R.E.M., or even Australia’s own Dappled Cities.

Pairing a driving backbeat, fuzzy guitar, and intoxicating strings, the group explain that the track is written about standing on the precipice of overwhelming opportunity, and what the future holds. “It is a song about being overwhelmed by someone, and somewhere, but also overwhelmed by the beauty of those strange, new experiences we used to have when travel was possible,” they note.

Having risen through the ranks in recent years, Quivers were set to see 2020 bring them a wave of international attention thanks to a planned 21-date US tour. While COVID quickly saw these dates canned, the group remained undeterred by such an inconvenience, instead focusing on their craft, with Golden Doubt set to arrive on June 11th.

As singer Sam Nicholson explains, the record and its title relates to previous personal tragedies band members have experienced, and the resilient nature it awakens inside of you.

The track also comes accompanied by a charming phone-filmed video for the track, which was shot and edited by the band while “on a 24-hour deadline”, and serves as “a sort of visual powerpoint presentation” for the song.

“Golden, because musically we daydream with the guitars of Teenage Fanclub and The Cure, the singing of The Roches’ sisters, the basslines of Another Sunny Day, and the drums of Lower Dens or Car Seat Headrest,” Nicholson states. “Golden Doubt, because hitting your thirties after losing people knocks you off balance for a while, but no longer caring what the world thinks is always a breakthrough feeling.”

While “Golden Doubt” will be released in June, Quivers are also set to hit the stage in Melbourne on Friday, April 23rd for a launch show in support of their previous single. Supported by Georgia Knight, the group will play two shows, with full details available below.

Quivers’ “Hold You Back” is out now, while the album “Golden Doubt” will be released on June 11th via Spunk Records. 

QUIVERS – ” Golden Doubt “

Posted: April 2, 2021 in MUSIC, CLASSIC ALBUMS
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May be an image of 4 people, people standing, tree and outdoors

On May 28th, Melbourne-via-Tasmania jangle-pop quartet Quivers will release “Golden Doubt”, their second album (and first on Ba Da Bing Records), and the follow-up to their 2018 debut We’ll Go Riding on the Hearses and 2021 full-length cover of R.E.M.’s Out of Time. Lead single and Golden Doubt opener “Gutters of Love” begins simply with singer Sam Nicholson’s voice and a three-chord progression, building patiently to an achingly anthemic climax. Gleaming guitar work, vocal harmonies from Quivers members Holly Thomas and Bella Quinlan, and keen production courtesy of Matthew Redlich (Holy Holy, Husky, Ainslie Wills) all elevate the song into a bruised, yet beautiful rock anthem that makes its home in the fleeting space between joy and pain. “‘Gutters of Love’ is a song about serotonin levels but mostly about love.

We wanted a guitar song that was in love with love, but also knows a comedown is coming and you might need your friends to help you get through it,” Nicholson says in a statement. “That’s why the song is all Holly and Bella harmonies, big guitars, broken Farfisa organ, piano, and a shouty choir. It will be OK.”

Coming from Australia and the strong indie rock area of Melbourne music scene, Quivers have been releasing music for half-a-decade, since their initially self-released debut, “We’ll Go Riding On The Hearses”. After last year’s R.E.M covers of “Out Of Time”, the band are about to release their third record, “Golden Doubt”, due out in June as a co-release between an impressive collaboration between a trio of wonderful labels. Ahead of that release, this week the band have shared a brand-new track, “Gutters Of Love”.

Described by the band as, “a song about serotonin levels but mostly about love”, “Gutters Of Love” muses on the amount of time we all spend talking and thinking about love, whether we’re shouting across dance-floors or sitting on bedroom floors trying to make sense of it all. The track comes in on a muted chord-sequence, slowly morphing into something altogether more melodic, as an abundance of vocals and a wavering Farfisa organ lift it to a scream-along crescendo as a make-shift choir ask as one, “after the serotonin’s gone, could you ever fall in love?” 

Filmclip directed by the band from super 8 footage collected in late 2020 in Melbourne and Brisbane, Australia. Edited by Michael Panton. Thanks to our friends who appeared here & also Louie the dog and all the chickens.

Quivers have described Golden Doubt as a record about grief and what puts us back together; how with friends, music and a sense of humour, we somehow manage to find a way to keep-on-keeping-on.

Golden Doubt is out June 11th via Ba Da Bing Records (UK/North America), Bobo Integral (Europe).